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Mrs. Clara Chamberlain McLean 



The Laws of Health 
and Prosperity 

AND 

How to Apply Them 



TWELVE LESSONS 

IN SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 

WITH TECHNIQUE 

BY 

CLARA CHAMBERLAIN McLEAN 



A BOOK FOR INDIVIDUAL USE 

ALSO FOR STUDENTS 

AND TEACHERS 



PUBLISHED BY 

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FOREWORD 




PIRITUAL SCIENCE is that of 
the Spirit, or Life of the Universe, 
demonstrating according to de- 
pendable Laws into various and 
multiple forms and expressions. 
It has to do with the kingdom of 
god, which we are told by Jesus 
to "seek first," and that by so doing, "all other 
things shall be added unto us." 

After twelve years of study of Psychology, 
Psychotherapy, Christian Science, so-called "Di- 
vine" Science, "Mental" Science, New Thought, 
The Emmanuel Movement, Theosophy, Vedanta 
Philosophy, Spiritualism, etc., etc., under a num- 
ber of the best teachers of these branches, and 
with supplementary reading along these lines, in- 
cluding Bibles and books on mysticism, by Hindus 
and other peoples; as well as an experience 
of about ten years, of teaching, hearing many 
Life Problems, complicated in the extreme; and 
having been privileged by seeing many wonderful 
results from the knowledge and faithful use of 
these laws, I feel that perhaps I have an individual 
word to add, for those who belong to "my chord" 
in the Symphony of Life; a different "angle" of 

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4 Foreword 

truth, from the many others who have helped me 
so wonderfully. I cannot close this introduction 
to my simple Lessons without a word of apprecia- 
tion of one who I realize was a great Soul, and to 
whom the world owes a deep debt of gratitude, 
from the fact that she brought about, through 
hours of meditation and study, the Rebirth, into 
this World, of the real christ religion, of 

HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND SUCCESS, taught and 

lived by jesus of nazareth, but for many years 
lost, to a great extent, by his "so-called" followers. 
I refer to Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder 
of The Christian Science Church. The laws 
taught by her, and those who call themselves 
"Christian Scientists," are universal laws of 
god, the System which she evolved is hers, and 
the number of Churches, with the crowds of 
healthy, joyous people who are all over the 
World, attending them, in addition to the great 
number of individuals who have testified as to 
wonderful cures, Physically, Mentally, and Mor- 
ally, are proof that she had a wonderful conscious- 
ness of TRUTH. 

A number of those who were patients of Dr. 
P. P. Quimby about the same time that Mrs. Eddy 
was treated by him (one of whom was Julius A. 
Dresser, father of Horatio W. Dresser, who is a 
well-known writer and teacher along these lines) l 

1<4 The True History of Mental Science," by Julius A. 
Dresser. Revised with notes and additions by his son, 
Horatio W. Dresser. Pub. by Geo. H. Ellis. Also "The 
Philosophy of P. P. Quimby," by A. G. Dresser. Pub. by 
Geo. H. Ellis, 1895. 



Foreword 5 

and a few who began with her, but being Indi- 
vidualists, felt that they could not conform to so 
rigid a system, withdrew from the established 
Church, and evolved each an individual System, 
calling them by the various names before men- 
tioned. No one has, however, attempted to 
establish an institutional Church, as all seem to 
feel that these laws can and should be added to 
the Churches now existing, of which there are a great 
enough variety to satisfy the different tempera- 
ments. All Systems are good, in so far as they 
help their founders and others, to demonstrate more 
of Health, and Harmony, and the teaching of jesus, 
in everyday Life, and only when any person or 
organization says, "We have all of the truth 
and all others are WRONG," do they deny their 
own premise and prove their own limitation. 

Just as Electricity has always been in the Uni- 
verse, but it was necessary for Man to discover it, 
learn its laws, and, by working according to 
them, produce Light, Heat, Energy, etc., and as 
several different men have invented systems 
differing more or less from each other, and each 
individual in the world is free to choose which 
System he or she wishes to use — so these Spir- 
itual laws may be used through different systems, 
and individuals may select the technique that 
appeals to him or her. The study and use of these 
laws is not limited to any one Theological denom- 
ination or Medical Organization, nor are they 
antagonistic to either. An Episcopal clergyman 
of wide experience and high Ideals once said to 
me — "In the last analysis, each soul must find 



6 Foreword 

its own idea of god and jesus, and no one can 
ever explain to any other, exactly what that 
conception or realization is; spiritual experiences 
cannot be fully expressed so that another soul 
really understands; only god, the whole, can 
so understand." Believing this to be true, I 
know that all argument along these lines is a waste 
of time and energy! I give out, in these Lessons, 
My Highest truth to-day, reserving the right 
which every soul must have, to keep always an 
open mind and a listening ear for the next new 
angle of truth, for without this attitude there 
can be no growth. 

Having tried out these laws of the spirit, 
"Pragmatically" (as Wm. James advises), and 
proved "By their fruits" their dependability, 
I send out my humble message, with its Technique, 
knowing that through the beautiful law of Attrac- 
tion, all those who are "Tuned to my key," and 
are ready for my word, will find it; and if they 
in turn read with an open mind, and try out my 
methods, herein given, I believe they will receive 
great Practical help in their life problems, 
along all lines, and by their acceptance of a few 
of my individual new thoughts, strengthen the 
chain of Love and understanding of which I am 

ONE LINK. 

With a message of Health, Harmony, and 
Peace to all. 

Clara Chamberlain McLean. 



CONTENTS 

LESSON PAGE 

I. Unity 9 

II. The Action of the Objective and Subjective 

(or Subconscious) Sides of Mind 16 

III. Hypnotism 25 

IV. The Effect of the Emotions on the Body . . 34 
V. Concentration 45 

VI. The Author's Individual Attitude toward 

Doctors and Medicine 57 

VII. Spirit and Matter as Considered by Many 

of the Scientists and Religionists today . 65 

VIII. The Christ or Spiritual Consciousness: 

"Living THE Presence of God" 89 

IX. Love, Marriage, and Divorce 100 

X. Family Life and how to Teach the Laws op 

Life to Children 123 

XL What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 

toward Death 139 

XIL Some Mystic Laws 147 




Lesson I 




UNITY 

HEN we begin the study of 
any subject we must first find 
the principles upon which the 
theory is based; then, using these 
as our foundation, study the 
laws of these principles, and, 
trying them out individually, 
prove them to ourselves. 

Only in this way can we really know " Truth " 
and practically apply it in our daily lives. 

Mrs. Emma Curtis Hopkins says, "A prin- 
ciple is a comprehensive law or doctrine from 
which others are derived. That is, obedience is 
vested in the Supreme I am, or there could be 
no obedience in the dog or horse. Authority is 
resident in the King of Kings, or the General-in- 
Chief of an army could not command with suc- 
cess." 

The first principle of " Spiritual Science " 
(The Science of Spirit or Divine Mind) is that 
we are each in, and a part of, a " Universe," the 

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10 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

life or Essence of which is perfect; which is con- 
stantly expressing, in various and countless 
forms. In this life Essence is everything that 
ever has been or will be; it is the " AH Good or 
God." The Scientists of to-day call this "Es- 
sence/' which is back of everything, and may be 
called the "No Thing" — the "Ether of Space." 
(I will go more fully into this in my lesson on 
" Spirit and Matter/') 

Taking this as our conclusion, and starting 
with it as our premise, we realize the "Unity" of 
the Universe — that it is a " Living, pulsing, 
throbbing Cosmos," working according to exact 
laws, and therefore dependable. We then begin 
to realize how interesting must be the study of 
the laws of the numberless forms of expression of 
this Wonderful and Limitless Life-Force. 

Now going back in our thought to the " Fire 
Mist," the "Nebulae," we come down through 
the ages to the formation of Planets, Solar Sys- 
tems, demonstrating these perfect laws in perfect 
rhythm, not varying a part of a second, and we 
are awed by the enormity of it! Surely, think- 
ing, meditating along these lines, must give us 
"gFaith " in the " Power," or " Force," back of 
all this, and enable us to say, Yes: it is — "All 
Good or God." 

We next look out upon this particular Planet 
on which we live, called the Earth, and as this 
is our home at present, it seems sensible, in fact 
necessary, for us to study it along all lines and to 
become familiar with its laws as far as possible. 
We find through the study of the sciences that the 



Unity 11 

One Life is expressing itself through mineral, 
vegetable, animal, up to man, which is the highest 
manifestation on this Planet; that these forms 
are composed of atoms, which are constantly 
changing, and, through the study of Evolution, 
that the law of change is from a lower to a higher; 
we then realize that the poet is right who says : — 

To change and change is Life, 

To move, and never rest — 

Not what we are but what we hope is best. 

And we conclude that man, being the highest 
manifestation of life on this Planet, should have 
dominion over all other life, but can do so only 
through the patient study of each manifestation, 
thereby learning its laws and applying them to his 
life. In this way is man a "Co-worker and 
Creator with God." 

We now come to the study of Spiritual Science 
and the use of its laws by man, in order that he 
may demonstrate more and more of the Perfect 
God Essence which he really is, thereby becoming 
more harmonious with his environment along all 
lines. 

One, if not the most important, implement re- 
quired in teaching anything new is the most simple 
and understandable verbiage. 

Away back in the history of man from the be- 
ginning of his first simple consciousness it became 
necessary for him to communicate with his "kind," 
and first with signs, then with sounds, those simple 
animal men arranged methods of communica- 
tion, and finally languages were established. Then 



12 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

by certain signs words were written down, in 
order that knowledge and ideas might be pre- 
served and transferred to others. As a matter of 
course, as races grow and exchange old ideas for 
new, the meaning of words must change, and 
practically a new vocabulary is formed. Pro- 
fessor Richard Moulton says that the most diffi- 
cult thing to teach is to put new meaning into old 
words; that for this reason in teaching new ideas 
it is really better to coin new words. We find this 
true when we endeavor to give a name to any new 
idea or institution. I practically experienced this 
in trying to select a name for my class and we 
tried "Practical Christianity," "Modern Mental 
Science," "New Thought," with the following 
result. — The first name did not seem broad 
enough, as we really studied all Science and re- 
ligion. The second was misunderstood by many 
(particularly by Christian Scientists), because to 
them the word "Mind" means the Physical Brain, 
and they therefore thought the Science entirely 
Physical and Material. "New Thought" would 
arouse the statement," That is not new, it is the 
teaching we find all through the Bible." (And 
right here let me say that it is "New Thought" 
about "Old Truths" and the name is perfectly cor- 
rect.) But after all this experience I was meditat- 
ing one night on the subject, and decided that 
"Spiritual Science" was the best name I could give 
the Study, as I understood it. "Spirit" being the 
whole of Life, this name would be absolutely inclu- 
sive and nothing else was big enough for me. I 
have, therefore, adopted that name for my work. 



Unity 13 

and a little later a "Spiritual Science Federation" 
was organized by the most prominent teachers and 
writers of these laws in New York City. Follow- 
ing along this same line, I wish to explain my per- 
sonal use of certain words, and names, which will 
necessarily be often used in these lessons, that there 
may be no confusion as to my meaning. I use 
"Spirit" as the name for the Perfect God Life of 
the "Cosmos" or Universe. That which is in and 
through all, therefore, is all in Essence. "Soul," 
as the name for the individual part of that "Life" 
which is the real Self or "I" of each human being; 
the one part of the "Whole Cosmos," which is 
to That, as one drop of water to the Ocean, having 
within it all the constituent elements, only differ- 
ing in quantity. A part of that "No Thing" that 
which "Is" has had no beginning and can have no 
end, a perfect circle. It can never be lost, but 
must exist eternally. 

The small "I" or "Ego" as the unfinished, im- 
perfect demonstration of each individual here and 
now. "Mind" as the intelligence within the 
Soul, that which is common to all life, in different 
degrees of manifestation, and therefore through 
which we touch and know God. "Brain" — 
the physical organ through which man and to 
some extent the higher animals come in contact 
with their environment, through the use of the 
five Senses. "Love" — the first and highest 
expression of the God Life. In fact "God is 
Love" and Love is God's first expression. (Think 
quietly and meditate on the meaning of these 
names.) 



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Technique 

If we wish to become proficient in anything 
from Golf or Foot-ball to bringing forth harmony 
on a musical instrument, we are obliged to study 
and master the Technique of that particular 
Game or Instrument. There is a "Technique" 
which must be acquired in order that we may learn 
to use the wonderful laws of Spiritual Science and 
thereby demonstrate harmony on all planes. In 
other words, that we may be Happy, Healthy, 
Successful beings and help others to the same 
conditions. 

In studying this lesson the Student should care- 
fully read it over several times. Then go alone — 
out of doors if possible and to some quiet place. 
The country is the ideal place, of course. If not 
convenient to do this, go to a window, look out at 
the sky, the trees — everything, and first quietly 
think how wonderful it is — this One Life is all, 
each one of us attached to it all; as you get quiet 
you will feel this Unity. Think of the air as the 
breath of Life. Take long breaths, slowly, at your 
window if you cannot always go outside, realizing 
that you are breathing in the God Life. At night 
look up to the stars and try to realize the distance 
those planets are from us, and the "Life" that 
they are — and that all are a part of us, we of 
them, nothing but this one Perfect Life — Force — 
God — "in which we live and move and have our 
being." As we ponder quietly on this great 
"Truth" we gradually realize the "Consciousness 
of the whole" or the "Cosmic Consciousness," of 



Unity 15 

which the Scientists speak and which the reli- 
gionists call the "Christ Consciousness," because 
of all the Great Souls who have come into mani- 
festation on the Earth, Jesus the Christ we feel, 
taught and lived this consciousness of the God 
within Himself and all men the most completely. 
Students are advised to read carefully the Sermon 
on the Mount and all of the passages in the New 
Testament which are believed to have been the 
words of Jesus. Read also Walt Whitman, who 
had this consciousness to such a wonderful extent, 
— also "Emerson," who understood, taught, and 
lived it. 

This first lesson is the keynote, the most impor- 
tant one in the series because, in order to under- 
stand and use the laws that will follow, we must 
get at least a gleam of this Christ or Cosmic Con- 
sciousness and from that time on it is a steady 
growth limited only by the individual. Take the 
following statement as your watchword for this 
lesson. See it before you the first thing in the 
morning, through the day, and the last thing at 
night. 

"There is but one Life in the Universe. That 
Life is Perfect, I am a part of that Life and realize 
my Unity with every manifestation of it. 

66 All is good or God and God is Love.' 9 

At the end of a week, look back and think how 
much more this means to you than it did the first 
time you read it. In this way you will realize 
your growth in the Christ Consciousness. 





Lesson II 

THE ACTION OF THE OBJECTIVE AND 

SUBJECTIVE (OR SUBCONSCIOUS) 

SIDES OF MIND 

HE second principle in the Tech- 
nique of Spiritual Science is that 
of the two manifestations of the 
mind of man (and some of the 
higher animals): the objective 
and subjective (subconscious, or 
unconscious), for through the 
understanding of these two demonstrations can 
great wonders be accomplished. 

The objective action of the mind is through the 
personal will of man and the use of his five senses, 
thus coming into contact with his environment. 
With this mind he has differentiation, reasoning, 
discrimination, and choice. Whatever of "Free 
Will" he has, is through this action of the mind, 
and the "Brain" is the physical organ through 
which it acts. Therefore when the organ or brain 
is "out of tune" the mind, while it is not affected, 
cannot function properly because of the imper- 
fection of the instrument: just as musical har- 
mony cannot be produced through an instrument 
that is "out of tune." 

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Subconscious Sides of Mind 17 

The subjective, subconscious or unconscious 
action of the mind is that which we have in com- 
mon with the whole Life of the Universe. It is 
the one which we say works according to the 
"Laws of Nature" or "mechanically": some call 
it the "Intuitive Mind." Through this part of 
the mind we know things beyond the five senses. 
It is the "Psychic Mind," the one through which 
we "Know God," the all Good, and have our 
"Spiritual Life." It is in each soul the part of 
the "God Mind" or "Whole." 

This part of the mind functions through what 
is called the "secondary nerve centers" and its 
action is like that of a Phonograph — every ex- 
perience or thought of each life is registered in the 
subconscious mind of that soul, and comes out in 
action, manifestation, so that each one is to-day 
in demonstration, or character, just the total re- 
sult of what has been taken in by the subcon- 
scious mind, good, bad, and indifferent; — like a 
store room into which has been thrown all the "odd 
things" collected through the years — all kinds, 
in all states and conditions. This mind is incap- 
able of inductive reasoning; every impression 
comes out in demonstration just as it went in — 
as a musician singing or playing to a "record for 
a phonograph"; if he strikes a false note it will 
always come out false when the record is played. 
We now begin to realize the wonderful possibili- 
ties for man through these two functions of the 
mind. As this part of the mind is that of the 
whole Universe, we can by quieting the objective 
side commune, get in touch with the all Good or 



18 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

God. In answer to the question as to how a 
keener sense of the subjective side of the mind 
may be awakened, Judge Thomas T. Troward 
says, "Don't Try. Don't try to make things 
what they are not." Subjective Mind is sub- 
jective just because it lies below the threshold 
of consciousness. It is the Builder of the Body, 
but we can neither see, hear, nor feel it building. 

Just keep in your conscious mind a quiet, calm 
expectation that subjective mind is always at 
work in accordance with the habitual thought of 
your objective mind: keep that in a life-giving 
attitude and subjective mind will take care of 
itself. 

Then the question is, how to keep the conscious 
thought in a life-enjoying and life-giving current. 
My answer to this is very simple, though perhaps 
old-fashioned; it is, Keep looking at God. Don't 
trouble about theology, but try to realize the 
Universal Divine Spirit as perpetually flowing 
through all things, through insensible things, as 
atomic energy; through animals, as instinct; 
through man, as thought. 

If this be so, then your manifestation of God will 
correspond with your habitual thought of God. 
Quietly contemplate the Divine Spirit as a con- 
tinual flowing of Life, Light, Intelligence, Love, 
and Power and you will find this current flowing 
through you and manifesting in a hundred ways, 
both mentally and physically, and in your affairs. 

You do not make this current, but you prepare 
the conditions which will either cause it to trickle 
through thinly and weakly, or else flow through 



Subconscious Sides of Mind 19 

strongly. You prepare the conditions on the in- 
terior side by a mental attitude of looking into the 
Light (God is Light) with the expectancy of thence 
receiving Life and Illumination, and on the ex- 
terior side by not denying in your work what you 
are trying to hold in your thought — for yourself 
the simple Law of Enjoyment of all that you 
can enjoy, ruled by moderation — and toward 
others the equally simple Law of Honesty and 
Kindness. 

I know you have heard these things ever since 
you were a child, but what all want is to realize 
their connection with the building power within. 
The connection is this : that the Spirit, as it flows 
through you, becomes you, and it becomes in you 
just what you take it for, just as water takes the 
shape of the pipe it flows through. It takes shape 
from your thought. It is exceedingly sensitive, — 
how much more then must the pure life Principle 
itself be sensitive? Think over this, and then, 
think. Think of it kindly, lovingly, trustfully, 
and as a welcome companion. It will respond 
exactly. Think of it as a living Light, continually 
flowing through you and vivifying you and it will 
respond exactly. 

If you ask why it does this, the answer is, be- 
cause it is the Infinite of Your Real Self. Let 
this answer suffice you. You will only darken the 
Light by trying to analyze the Divine Spirit. 
You cannot dissect God. This does not mean 
being impractical, but getting to the very root of 
the truly practical. We will have our ordinary 
business to do, but believe me, it is Scientific 



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Method to bring everything into the Divine 
Light, — then let your ideas desire to see it in the 
Divine Light, then let your ideas regarding it grow 
quietly of themselves, and you will see it in its 
proper and true light whatever the thing may be. 
Then when you have seen what the thing really is, 
go on and handle it in accordance with the four 
principles of Cheerfulness, Moderation, Honesty, 
and Kindness, Don't worry, Don't try to force 
things, — let them grow, because by recognizing 
or realizing the continual flow of the Spirit you 
are providing the conditions, for Life is Light 
which will make them grow the right way. 

Don't bother about subjective mind, or objec- 
tive mind, or theories of any sort or description, 
either mine or anyone else's, but just do what I 
have said and try it for six months and I think 
you will find you have got hold of the Power that 
Works, and after all that is what we want. 

It is all summed up in this : live naturally with 
the Spirit and don't worry. Remember, you 
and the Spirit are One, and it is all quite natural. 
You will perhaps say that this is too simple. Well, 
we don't want to introduce unnecessary compli- 
cations. 

Try the practice and leave the theory to take 
care of itself. Living Spirit is not to be found in 
a book. 

Thomson J. Hudson was the first writer to 
clearly define the two actions of the Mind, Judge 
Troward followed closely, and the late William 
James, and all the later psychologists, as well as 
physicians, among whom are Dr. Paul Dubois, 



Subconscious Sides of Mind 21 

professor of neuropathology at the University of 
Berne, John Duncan Quackenbos A.M., M.D. 
of New York City and others. (Note the list of 
Books at the end of this Lesson.) 

Technique 

The Technique for the use of these principles in 
order that we may demonstrate more fully the 
Perfect Life which we really are follows: 

Terminology 

The Christian Scientists and Extreme Ideal- 
ists, who do not care to know or use the scientific 
terms, ignore all "matter," or form, "Deny" it, 
say there is "nothing but God, Spirit." And de- 
claring that, seeing nothing but that, they make 
wonderful demonstrations. In the last analysis 
(as the scientists say) they are right, even accord- 
ing to the latest physical science, as we shall see 
from the lesson on "Spirit and Matter." 

But for those who, like myself, are Practical 
Idealists and Individualists it is necessary to ex- 
plain the use of these laws in terms with which all 
are familiar, and to accept and include all forms 
or outward demonstrations of the Spirit, studying 
the laws of each on its plane of consciousness. 

"Denial" 

Personally I use very little "Denial," for I be- 
lieve that by denials we make more of an "Entity 
of Evil " (which to me is unfinished Good). When 
one is commencing this study I believe in one 



22 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

"Grand Denial" to the Subconscious side of our 
Mind, as a house cleaning for the "storeroom." 
I will give this at the end of the lesson. 

"Thought" 

Only within the last few years have we com- 
menced to realize and to study the force of 
"Thought," and that, as Prentice Mulford tells 
us, "Thoughts are Things." 

In fact all demonstration comes first through 
Thought and the sequence, in order to bring forth 
into manifestation that which we desire is first, 
the "Ideal, or Vision," then the "Thought" 
about it, and through that the Action, followed 
by the Realization and Actualization. 

With our active, objective side of Mind and our 
Personal Will, we can control our thoughts and 
direct them to the Subconscious part of our mind 
and to that of others. This is called Suggestion. 
The conscious sending of thoughts to our own 
"Subconscious," is called "Auto Suggestion." 
Through the use of these laws, without regard 
to the name or system, or the name by which the 
person or persons is called, is all Treatment worked, 
and all healing accomplished, from that of Jesus 
the Christ, and all the Saints of History, to the 
drinking of certain waters, laying on of hands, 
etc., etc. 

Statement of Denial 

I now "deny out" all the old Fears, Supersti- 
tions, False Beliefs, wrong habits: Everything 
but "Truth" from my "Subconscious." It is 
Clean and clear. 



Subconscious Sides of Mind 23 

Affirmation 

From this day I shall make it my business to 
consciously open to the Mind of God, and let it 
work through me, and express its Good, as far as 
possible, each day, and I shall, also, carefully 
watch, and endeavor to control thoughts and send 
only those to my " subconscious,' 5 which I desire 
shall appear in manifestation for myself and others. 

Treatment 

This may be used by auto-suggestion for self, or 
directed to others; Think or speak to the Subcon- 
scious: 

Have the patient sit or lie in a quiet, well-venti- 
lated room — Relax physically, feel heavy, and 
let the chair or bed hold the patient — no strain 
or tightening of the muscles. Feel the Unity, 
open the door of the mind to the Spirit, let it flow 
in quietly. Then say, "I feel the wonderful life 
force flowing into and through me, acting on all 
my organs, to enliven and purify them. I feel the 
Love of God, the pure essence flowing in and 
through me, vitalizing me. I am becoming 
saturated with this wonderful Love and I am so 
filled with it that I radiate and send it forth to all 
men and all things in the Universe. Nothing but 
Love can approach me, for I am Love." 

Then, commencing with the heart, praise each 
organ for the wonderful work it is doing. Liver, 
stomach, all — and thank each and all for its 
wonderful dependable action every moment in 
life. Tell each that you send love to it and will 



24 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

help it to function more easily by trying to mani- 
fest more of the Great Spirit, God, each day of 
life. Then declare strongly, I am (or you are) a part 
of the Perfect Life of this Universe, God the all 
Good, and I am (or you are) demonstrating more 
and more of it each day and hour, in mind, body, 
and surroundings. I see you strong, courageous, 
wise, happy, filled with and radiating Love and 
Peace. "Peace — be still," all is god. 

List of Books recommended with Second 
Lesson, on Subconscious and Suggestion 

" Psychoanalysis i.e. Man's Unconscious Conflict," by 
Wilfred Lay, Ph.D. 

" The Neurotic Constitution," by Dr. Alfred Adler. 

"The Law of Mental Medicine" and "Law of Psychic 
Phenomena," by Thomson J. Hudson. 

" The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science." 

" The Dore Lectures." 

"The Creative Process in the Individual" and "Bible 
Mystery and Bible Meaning," by Thomas T. Troward. 

"The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders," by 
Dr. Paul Dubois. 

"Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice," by 
John Duncan Quackenbos, A.M., M.D. 

"Suggestion not Hypnotism," by Henry Harrison Brown. 

Books on Physical Exercise and Relaxation 

"Power through Repose." 

"The Freedom of Life." 

"How to Live quietly." 

"Nerves and Common Sense," by Annie Payson Call. 

" New Nerves for Old," by Arthur A. Carey (Waltham,Mass.) . 

"The Technique of Rest," by Anna C. Brackett. 

"The Emerson System of Physical Culture." Boston, 
Mass. (Emily Bishop.) 

"Exercises," by Susanna Cocroft, Michigan Ave., 
Chicago, HI. 




Lesson III 




HYPNOTISM 

HERE has been much exaggera- 
tion and misunderstanding in re- 
gard to Hypnotism, because very 
few people until the last several 
years have understood it. 

Hypnotism is the "stilling' 5 or 
quieting of the objective side of the 
mind in order to suggest more directly and strongly 
to the subconscious. This may be accomplished 
in many and diverse ways. We hypnotize our- 
selves and others many times when we do not 
realize that we are so doing; when a mother or 
nurse lulls a babe to sleep she is hypnotizing to a 
certain extent the little one. She uses a steady 
soft little lullaby, or just a little monotonous "hum" 
that quiets and hushes the objective mind and 
baby "goes to sleep." 

The usual method, used by physicians and psy- 
chologists as well as spiritual and mental healers, 
is to have the patient lie down or recline in a com- 
fortable chair or couch, to tell them to "let go" 
physically and mentally; to relax, as completely 

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26 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

as possible, — sometimes the eyes are to be closed. 
Others treat by looking one steadily but quietly in 
the eye. The healer then perhaps talks a little 
quietly, "suggesting" certain Truths such as "You 
are a child of God, a perfect expression of the 
Divine Life, You are therefore perfect and can- 
not be sick, you are quiet, happy, peaceful" — 
gradually speaking lower and more quietly till 
there is silence. (Sometimes in case of a very 
nervous patient the hand is held, but in most cases 
it is believed better not to touch the patient.) 
Then the healer sends strong "suggestions" with 
the "Thought" to the subconscious side of the 
patient. In case of drug or liquor habit, "You 

do not like the taste of , it nauseates you — 

you dislike it very much — you will not want it 
again — you are free from it. Your organs are 
working perfectly now. You are breathing in 
the "Life" of the Universe, the "All Good" You 
are quiet, happy, strong, well, peaceful; All — is 
— Good. Then the patient is allowed to lie 
quietly for a time, the Healer sitting near, and 
when the patient is awakened it must be done very 
gently, calling by name quietly and perhaps strok- 
ing the head a little, so as to have no start or shock. 
Hypnotism should not be used excepting in 
chronic or extreme cases, and then only by a phy- 
sician, who understands the action of the heart, 
etc. Dr. Paul Dubois of Berne, Dr. John D. Quack- 
enbos of New York City, and many others of note, 
have made wonderful cures of the drug and alco- 
hol habit in this way, but even they, use hypno- 
tism only in extreme cases. 



Hypnotism 27 

There has been much unnecessary fear in regard 
to Hypnotism. While no one should allow another 
to take control of their objective mind excepting 
for treatment, and then only with the certainty 
that the healer is a physician in good standing 
(and even so, some member of the family or trusted 
friend should be present or near at hand), I be- 
lieve it is acknowledged by psychologists that it is 
impossible to hypnotize any one without their 
consent unless the brain is out of order, or they 
are under the influence of alcohol or some drug. 

In ordinary cases results fully as satisfactory 
may be accomplished when the patient is in a 
natural sleep. The latter method is wonderful 
for curing children of unpleasant and harmful 
habits, and of treating them for health and har- 
mony. 

Mothers and nurses when putting their little 
ones in bed at night may use these laws with won- 
derful results : — For instance, tell them a happy, 
sweet little story, nothing exciting. Then teach 
them a statement, such as "I am God's little 
child — God is love, so / am Love. I send that 

love and blessing to " (mentioning all the dear 

ones) and to every one. 

As my little grandson said when only four years 
old, "God bless every one I know, and every one 
I don't know." This gives the child the Universal 
or Cosmic Idea when so young that it grows up in 
that consciousness naturally and easily. 

Then, after the child is asleep, sit beside it and 
suggest strong thoughts of Perfection, Health, 
Sweetness, Happiness, Joy, Strength, Peace, dwel- 



28 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

ling most strongly on the attributes, or conditions 
which each child is most lacking, in order to bring 
them into demonstration. 

They can by using this method accomplish 
wonders! In fact there is no limit to the results 
that can be obtained, because they are using the 
perfect laws of God, the All Good. When the 
manifestation does not come quickly one must 
persevere, steadily, quietly but firmly, and work 
to realize more and more of the "One Life" in 
one's own Soul, so that one may be the avenue 
through which it flows more fully. Of course 
this same method works with adults and I believe 
the most satisfactory results come through treat- 
ing while the patient is in natural sleep. 

Telepathy 

This term is derived from two Greek words 
signifying "afar oft to suffer or feel." A brief 
definition of the word is "Communion between 
minds outside the recognized channels of sensa- 
tion." (Sheldon Leavitt, M.D.) 

"Telepathy or Thought Transference is one of 
the 'New Thoughts' about old Truths." We 
have all experienced it in one way or another, but 
not understanding it, have called its demonstra- 
tions "peculiar coincidences." For instance, when 
we think "I will call such a person up on phone" 
and going to do so, find that friend at the phone 
calling us, or after writing a letter to a friend re- 
ceive one from that friend, showing that both were 
written about the same time and probably at least 
mentioning the same subject. We have while 



Hypnotism 29 

quietly thinking a question, had a person answer 
it verbally, etc., etc. To the Society for Psychical 
Research organized a few years ago do we owe the 
fact that to-day "Telepathy" is known to be a 
perfectly respectable Scientific Truth. It is now 
acknowledged by Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William 
Crookes, Dr. A. R. Wallace, and most of, if not all, 
the reliable scientists of to-day. It is interesting 
to note in a little book on "Absent Treatment of 
Disease," with particular reference to Telepathy, 
written and published in 1906 by Sheldon Leavitt 
M. D., the following: — "Mr. Gladstone not long 
before his death addressed the following words to 
the Secretary of the Society for Psychical Re- 
search: 'You are engaged in the most important 
work in the world, — by far the most important. 
I am a member of the Society and I do not simply 
believe in Telepathy — I know it exists. I think 
that I am not wrong in saying that this opinion is 
also held by such eminent men as Professor William 
James, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. 
A. R. Wallace, and many other men equally dis- 
tinguished in Scientific Research. It seems to me 
that The Society for Psychical Research has 
scientifically demonstrated beyond doubt the ex- 
istence of Telepathy." This prophecy made by 
the Great Man, Gladstone a number of years ago 
has been actually fulfilled beyond a doubt. It is 
now open for study and experiment, much of which 
has been and still is being done, and even with the 
slight knowledge we have to-day wonderful demon- 
strations have been made along many lines. 



30 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

Absent Treatment 

After reflecting on the actions of the individual 
will in control of the Objective Side of the Mind 
and therefore the power to "Suggest" to the Sub- 
conscious, following with the fact that " Thoughts " 
are dynamic, and lastly the great Truth of the law 
of Telepathy or Thought Transference, what a 
marvelous field of possibilities opens before us! 
One of the most important is the fact that "Ab- 
sent Treatment' 9 for disease and all Inharmony 
may be given. 

Now going back to the First Lesson on Unity 
(as we should often do) we realize that as there is 
but one "Life," one "Mind" in the Universe, 
through the use of "Telepathy" we may come 
into touch with any part, and with All of that 
"Mind." In fact, we may open to the All Good, 
from "All" of it, receiving limitless good, and we 
may by simply willing to do so send our thoughts 
out to each and all parts of it, affecting all, if ever 
so little, for good or ill. (In another lesson I will 
speak of "Evil" and the result of negative 
Thoughts, and how to prevent their entrance into 
the subconscious.) 

This brings us to the technique for Absent Treat- 
ment. This work, like all suggestion, is largely an 
individual question. Each Healer works out a 
system, pragmatically, and that is the only way 
the work can be successfully done. These are 
general laws which each must study and experi- 
ment with and in that way build up the individual 
system — I will give a few of the various details 



Hypnotism 31 

which I have tried, successfully. It is much more 
satisfactory when treating or sending any message 
by Thought to have an arrangement for a certain 
hour. — Then the patient or receiver will con- 
sciously open the subconscious to the Suggestion 
and cooperate with the Sender of the message. 
If this cannot be arranged and even when treat- 
ment is given in this way, it is well to treat when 
the patient is likely to be asleep late at night, in 
addition to the other; at that time the objective 
minds of the majority of people on this side of the 
planet are quiet, and the Thoughts can go more 
directly to the one to whom they are sent. 

When preparing to treat at a distance, it is best 
to go into a quiet room alone, take a comfortable 
chair, relax, close the eyes. There is an old law 
that is taught in all the ancient books on mys- 
ticism, that of "calling the name." I have tried 
this and believe it "works." I would, therefore, 
call the full name of the patient, speak it aloud if 
possible, if not, think it strongly. That, I believe, 
awakens the subconscious, also attracts the ob- 
jective and helps to "open the station to secure 
the message." Then form a "mental picture" of 
the patient, seeing him with the highest demon- 
stration, mentally, physically, and spiritually, that 
you can imagine, feeling a great Universal Love 
toward him. Then send the affirmative sugges- 
tions of his Real Life being the "One Life of God, 
the All Good/ 9 etc., —treating in the same way 
as though the patient were beside you, physically. 
When the Healer has never seen the patient it is 
well to obtain a photograph, or in any case to ask 



32 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

for description of the patient as to temperament, 
etc., and as much of a history as possible. These 
will greatly assist the Healer. When treating at 
a distance it is a great assistance to both to have 
the patient write regularly to the Healer, keeping 
him or her informed of the condition, noting 
changes and impressions. The replies written 
to the patient are strong Treatments, and should 
be treated as such. In his book on "The Absent 
Treatment of Disease," Dr. Sheldon Leavitt says: 
"The Healer should either keep up a regular cor- 
respondence with his patients at a distance or he 
should place his reliance for supplementary aid 
on printed or typewritten lessons carefully pre- 
pared," and follows with, "I beg you not to be 
startled by my confession of a belief that the 
letters passing between people are charged with 
the thought energy of those who write them. If 
this is true, then the peculiar value of such 
means of communication between patient and 
healer at once becomes evident." Says Professor 
John William Draper: "Upon the walls of our 
most private apartments, where we think the eye 
of intrusion is altogether shut out and our retire- 
ment can never be profaned, there exists the ves- 
tiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we 
have done." "He might have added (says 
Dr. Leavitt) they also bear the record of our 
Thoughts." 

Admitting the truth of this we cannot escape 
the conviction that things we handle and wear 
take on from us deep impressions. We have 
realized for some time that we individually have 



Hypnotism 33 

an "atmosphere" ("Aura" the Hindu calls it) 
which we take with us always and which affects 
all others with whom we come in contact, either 
pleasantly or unpleasantly. If, in addition to this, 
even our clothes, our rooms, and everything belong- 
ing to us carries our personality with them, we 
can no longer to any extent disguise our real 
demonstration or character. It is therefore im- 
portant that we live and think each moment that 
which we wish to radiate to others. 

A few of the simplest, and yet very instructive, 
books on Telepathy, Hypnotism, etc., are: 

"The Absent Treatment of Disease," by Sheldon Leavitt 
M.D. 

"The Mind Telegraph," by Jones Barton Stay. 

"Not Hypnotism but Suggestion," by Henry Harrison 
Brown. 

For more scientific books, in addition to the 
names mentioned in former lessons, see those by 
Boris Sidis, Professor Sigmund Freud, L.L.D., 
Hugo Miinsterberg, Jung and others. 





Lesson IV 

TEE EFFECT OF THE EMOTIONS ON 
TEE BODY 

E have always known that emo- 
tions of fright, fear, anger, etc., 
would affect one's body; for 
instance that sudden fright or 
sadness would make one's face 
blanch, often make one feel faint, 
nauseated, etc., but these facts 
like many others were taken as matters of course. 
A few years ago Professor Elmer Gates of Wash- 
ington, D.C., commenced to experiment also along 
these lines. In a little book, "The Mind and the 
Brain," he explains how he worked on "Mind 
Building" through brain cells, experimenting 
with animals (not through vivisection), then apply- 
ing the results to the education of children, 
showing wonderful possibilities. He says : — 

"In 1879 I published a report of experiments 
showing that when the breath of a patient was 
passed through a tube cooled with ice so as to 
condense the volitile qualities of the respiration, 
the iodide of rhodopsin, mingled with these con- 

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Effect of the Emotions on the Body 35 

densed products, produced no observable pre- 
cipitate. But within five minutes after the 
patient became angry there appeared a brownish 
precipitate, which indicates the presence of a 
chemical compound produced by the emotion. 
This compound, extracted and administered to 
men and animals, caused stimulation and excite- 
ment. Extreme sorrow, such as mourning for the 
loss of a child recently deceased, produced a gray 
precipitate; remorse, a pink precipitate, etc. 
My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, 
and depressing emotions generate in the system in- 
jurious compounds, some of which are extremely 
poisonous: also that agreeable, happy emotions 
generate chemical compounds of nutritious value, 
which stimulate the cells to manufacture energy. 

"I have succeeded in entirely eliminating vicious 
propensities from children with dispositions 
toward cruelty, stealing, or anger. In curing a 
bad habit I would for every evil tendency, image, 
or craving existing in the same parts of the brain 
create a greater number of the opposite kind of 
memories and keep them active a greater number 
of times each day, until the old structures had 
disappeared and new ones had been formed. This 
process does not require the assent of the patient 
any further than to take the course of studies. 
He may even not desire to abandon a certain 
practice or habit, but may wish to continue his 
evil course; yet, by the force of brain building, 
that motive can be eliminated. 

"This system of development can be applied 
to regulate the assimilative processes, the diseases 



36 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

of which are dyspepsia, alcoholism, etc. A woman 
unable to eat fatty or greasy substances, even in 
the smallest portions, was by this system trained 
to take them in normal quantities. The alcohol 
habit, when not engendered by habitual and ex- 
cessive use of liquors, can originate through a cer- 
tain derangement of the stomach and the brain 
cells that govern it. Indigestion, accompanied 
by fermentation of sweets, creates a small amount 
of alcohol in the stomach. This alcohol produces 
a stimulating effect which the patient misses when 
the fermentation is arrested by the alcohol itself 
or by a change in the food. The first step toward 
curing this habit consists in forming another series 
of brain structures of the different stages relating 
to previous experiences, not merely with intoxi- 
cants but with foods in general. The creation of 
at least a hundred times as many morally-function- 
ing cells as there had been immorally-functioning 
cells will cause the craving for stimulants to dis- 
appear. It is possible in three months' time to 
develop brain structures which will cause a patient 
to feel disgust for what he had previously relished 
and desired." 

Another and more recent writer along these 
lines is Walter Cannon, professor of physiology 
in Harvard University, who, in his book "Bodily 
Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," ex- 
plains in scientific detail the effect of the emotions 
on digestion, the muscles, nerves, etc., etc. These 
two books should be read by all teachers and seri- 
ous students. I will endeavor to put into simple 
language some of the technique to be applied so 



Effect of the Emotions on the Body 37 

that these laws may be used intelligently, in order 
to demonstrate Happiness, Health, and Success. 
The emotions are largely subconscious; they may 
and should, however, be controlled by the objective 
or active side of mind. We speak of some people 
as being "emotional"; we mean that they are 
highly sensitive in their nervous organization and 
that they have not learned to control their emo- 
tions, so that to a greater extent than is normal 
their emotions act subconsciously, without control 
by the active or objective side. Children and 
individuals and races who are in the childish stage 
are to a great extent governed by their subcon- 
scious side, and the first and most important step 
in education (the word educate means to educe 
from within, to instruct, to develop, to train) is 
the training of the objective side, so that it will 
"suggest" to the subconscious that which we wish 
it to demonstrate. The objective or reasoning side 
of mind should always be in control. When it is 
not we say people are "not sane " (or insane), and 
this is a truth. 

When we feel an emotion we should at once 
think "Is this good for me?" Having been told 
by scientists that thoughts of anger, fear, worry, 
irritation, affect the blood so as to really poison it, 
we naturally decide that we must learn to elimi- 
nate these emotions as far as possible. 

Treatment for Fear 

First one strong "denial" — i.e. There is 
nothing to Fear in the Universe. — I have no fear. 
There is nothing but God the All Good. Nothing 



38 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

can hurt nor touch me unless I allow it. I refuse 
to admit anything but God the All Good: I open 
to that now. The wonderful love of God, the Life 
of All, and of myself, is flowing into me and through 
me now. I am that life and in that Life "I live 
and move and have my being." — I am a Sun 
of Love, attached to the Great God or whole that is 
constantly radiating love. I, as a part of that 
whole, radiate Love, therefore nothing but Love 
can touch me. All is Love. (Use this every day — 
every night before going to sleep, meditate on it, 
think what it means, and you will get the realiza- 
tion of it.) 

Treatment for Anger 

" I am not angry. I refuse to be angry — I know 
that anger is a negative force for evil, or inhar- 
mony, and that 'as I give, I shall receive.' If I 
send forth angry, irritable thoughts, or allow them 
to come into action, they will not only go out into 
the ether and affect all other negative souls to some 
extent, but they will return to me with compound 
interest, and bring back inharmony, pain, etc. I, 
therefore, will not be angry — I refuse to admit 
any irritable or unkind thoughts — I drive them 
out! I am Love, a part of the God Life of the 
Universe. All is Good — all is Love. I am quiet, 
peaceful, loving. I am demonstrating the Love 
and Peace which I really am. I have the Christ 
Ideal. I am in the Christ Consciousness now. I 
believe and know that the laws He taught and 
lived are scientific and will demonstrate harmony. 
I am realizing those laws of love and nonresist- 



Effect of the Emotions on the Body 39 

ance now. I am happy, quiet, calm, peaceful, and 
I radiate these qualities to every one and every- 
thing in the Universe." (Sit quietly with eyes 
closed and simply feel the Love life flowing 
through; send love out to the whole Universe.) 

Treatment when One Feels Anger or Hurt 
from or Toward Another Soul 

Every night before going to sleep, honestly ex- 
amine yourself, and see if you have one thought 
of inharmony toward any person in the world. If 
you have, See that person at his or her best self, 
then say in thought or spoken word — You, your 
true self are a part of the God Life of the Uni- 
verse, the same life that I am; I see that Real 
You, now. I have not liked some of your demon- 
stration, but I, myself, although I really desire to 
demonstrate harmony at all times, am not always 
able to do so, on account of ignorance and lack 
of control of my personal self. I therefore have 
no right to Judge any other Soul, at any time. I 
know the law that Christ gave, "Judge not lest 
Ye be Judged, etc." I know that in the last 
analysis each Soul demonstrates at a given mo- 
ment just the best it can, considering everything. 
I know I do this, and therefore I must acknowl- 
edge that all others do. I therefore have no con- 
demnation for any Soul. I realize that the God 
Life is working through each Soul to express all 
that is possible, considering everything. That I 
(being finite) do not know what experiences are 
best for my own Soul, therefore certainly not for 
that of any one else. I believe that, according 



40 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

to the Law of attraction, each Soul attracts 
every experience it needs at just the moment it 
needs that experience, be it a person, a book, or 
a problem. I therefore have no criticism for any 
other Soul — I send love to one and all in the 
Universe, and free them to attract their next 
problem, learn their next lesson. As Robert 
Louis Stevenson so beautifully said — "Some 
people think it is my duty to make my neighbor 
good. One person only am I to make good — 
Myself — my duty to my neighbor is more surely 
expressed by saying: I am to make him happy — 
if I may." 

When some one has said or done something 
which "hurts your feelings," as we express it, think 
quickly to the subjective: "Lord, forgive them; 
they know not what they do." — That will free 
you at once. Then keep saying quietly, within, 
Peace, Quiet, Love. When the first opportunity 
comes for being alone, sit quietly and see that 
person, his or her best self, a part of the God Life, 
the same Life that you are, and say, I forgive you 
— "I give /or" that thoughtless "hurt" you gave 
me — Love and Peace and Understanding. You 
would not have said or done that to me, had 
you really known how much it would hurt me. 
Either you did not think when you said it, or you 
are so different in temperamant that you cannot 
understand how it hurt me; therefore I cannot 
hold you responsible to my capacity for feeling and 
suffering. — I send you Love and that dissolves 
all inharmony. I am quiet, peaceful, loving. 



Effect of the Emotions on the Body 41 

Treatment for Worry 

Worry is the most subtile of all negative emo- 
tions or conditions. It is the "worm at the root," 
hidden often, but getting in its deadly work. We 
really know that worry never helps any one at any 
time, and scientists tell us that every moment we 
worry our blood is being poisoned and of course 
the poison flowing through our body will produce 
inharmony or disease of some kind, — it may be 
headache, or sore throat, neuralgia; different 
emotions express differently in each individual. 
We may worry even while we are asleep — because 
we will understand, if we stop to think it out, that, 
if "worry" is in our subconscious, when we go to 
sleep with the active side, the subjective gets in its 
work, as it never slumbers nor sleeps. Often the 
subconscious will waken us suddenly in the night; 
we feel as though we had been called (some- 
times we have been): when this occurs, listen, 
inwardly — note the first thought that came into 
your mind upon waking. — It will either be a per- 
son or a problem. — If the former, send him a 
treatment, of Health, Courage, Strength, Love, 
Peace. Then go to sleep, trusting the God of the 
Universe to work. If however it is a problem that 
has been worrying you, open to it and you will 
probably get a clearer vision on it. Then decide 
what you are going to do about it (quietly, with- 
out anxiety). If you cannot see the answer, 
clearly, throw off the responsibility: say, "I cannot 
solve this problem. I put the responsibility out 
into the Universe for God to solve. Say, "I let go 



42 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

of it," and know that in some way the God of the 
Universe will work. (Each one should use the 
name for " God " which seems best to him or her — 
"Father," "God" — "The All Good" — etc., or 
the name which "Moses" used and that the Hin- 
dus and Mystics use — "7 AM THAT I AM. ") 

Often insomnia is caused first by some worry 
in the subconscious, thereby waking several times 
at the same hour, a habit or groove is formed in the 
subconscious, and it is difficult to overcome it. 
But it can be done by using this treatment. We 
exaggerate our need of sleep; it is generally ac- 
knowledged by reliable physicians that the average 
normal adult does not need more than six hours' 
sleep out of twenty-four, and can live for a long 
time with less. We are learning that "rest" is 
not necessarily "sleep," nor "doing nothing," but 
the changing of occupation — using different nerve 
cells, thus "resting" the ones we have perhaps 
used too steadily. The fear of staying awake, 
keeps one more wakeful. 

After sending the message or solving the prob- 
lem (if only by giving it up to God), lie quietly, 
think how wonderful and peaceful the world is, so 
many sleeping quietly — feel that you are in the 
"Arms of God" — relax — think Rest — Peace — 
Love — out to all the Universe. Say, "I am awake 
for some good. I send strong thoughts of Peace 
to All; All is Good, All is Peace." You will learn 
by using this treatment to go to sleep and in this 
way, with perseverance Insomnia can be cured. 

The treatment for "Worry" through the active 
mind is as in all cases of negative Thoughts — first 



Effect of the Emotions on the Body 43 

Denial, i.e. "There is no cause for "Worry"; I am 
part of the All Good. There is nothing (in reality) 
but the All Good or God, so nothing can really 
hurt me nor any one else. That which may seem 
harmful may prove to be a real blessing — I refuse 
to see the wrong demonstration; I see only the Per- 
fect Life — which is All that is real. God's laws 
are working now; working to will and to do That 
which is best for me and all Souls. I trust the 
God of All, and rest in His Love. 

Now when we have any inharmony in our body 
or our environment, instead of looking for the 
cause in something we have "eaten" or sometimes 
our "feet" have been damp, or we have sat in a 
"draught" — let us think back and be honest with 
ourselves and remember when we have been angry, 
irritable, frightened, worried, or have said or 
thought unkind things toward some one — criti- 
cized some one adversely — (perhaps only in 
thought) and finding the cause (for we will find it) 
deny out the negative thought, condition or emo- 
tion and use the Treatments heretofore given. 
There is no limit to the results that may be obtain- 
able by persevering in the use of these laws; be- 
cause they are the laws of God the All Good and 
limited only by our individual ignorance or neg- 
lect of their use. 

Books recommended along these lines are: — 

"Lessons in Truth,' ' by Emily Cady. 
"Why Worry?'' and "Those Nerves," by George L. 
Walton, M.D. 

"The Will to be Well," by Charles B. Patterson. 
"The Mind and the Brain," by Elmer Gates. 



44 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

"Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," by 
Walter B. Cannon. 

"The Renewal of the Body," by Annie Rix Militz. 

"Direct Healing" and "Health and Power through Crea- 
tion," by Paul Ellsworth. 

"The Untroubled Mind," by Herbert J. Hall, M.D. 

"The White Cross Library," "Your Forces and how to 
Use Them," by Prentice Mulford. 

"Voices of Freedom," "Living by the Spirit," and others 
by Horatio W. Dresser, Ph.D. 

Also books and "Nautilus" magazine, by Elizabeth Towne, 
Holyoke, Mass. 

"Unity" magazine and literature by the Unity Society, 
913 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 




Lesson V 




CONCENTRATION 

F all the Laws of Spiritual Science 
this one of Concentration has prob- 
ably been most misunderstood. 

Many of the first teachers, not 
thoroughly understanding the Law 
themselves, naturally gave con- 
fused and impractical directions. 
For instance, "Go alone in a room, sit in a chair, 
look at any one object (a clock or a spot on the 
wall), and put everything out of your mind, hav- 
ing it void; think of nothing but the spot." Now 
of course after trying to do this, these teachers 
found it an absolute impossibility, and then changed 
their instruction. To Anita Trueman (now Mrs. 
Harold Pickett) do I owe my first and best knowl- 
edge of concentration, and the technique for it, 
and through her instruction she spiritualized every 
article of furniture and ornament in my house 
and made it possible for me to perform my every- 
day duties as housekeeper in Pittsburgh, the 
center of Coal Soot, and, looking beyond the very 
negative and discouraging side, see the wonder and 
beauty back of it all. Following her came Dr. 

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Julia Seton, with her keen, brilliant insight and 
wonderful consciousness. I wish to give both 
these women thanks and appreciation for the 
great understanding they have, and were able to 
give to me. 

Concentration is an act of the personal will, 
directing the " Objective," and we learn it only by 
constant, conscious, and patient training. 

Technique 

Go alone in a room, sit in a restful, quiet, relaxed 
position. Take an article of furniture (bureau, 
desk) ; give your interested attention to it. Notice 
the kind of wood of which it is made, think where 
the wood grew, — if mahogany, see the trees in a 
large forest, the wind blowing through them, hear 
the little quiet rustle that one hears always in a 
forest, feel how quiet and restful it is, the sun shin- 
ing through, and the shadows. Then one day 
men came along and chopped several trees down, 
tied chains to them: Oxen probably hauled them 
to a railroad station — thence they went to some 
port, were loaded on a ship, brought north, 
transferred to a lumber yard, taken to a mill, 
then bought by a cabinet maker. Then think of 
and note the "design" of the article and every part 
of it, each line and ornament — the nails, screws, 
knobs, — everything the result of thought, a vision 
of the God mind, working through the brain of 
some man or woman! Think of the number of 
minds that have worked on that one piece of furni- 
ture before it came to you! Use this method 
every day, even for one half hour, taking a differ- 



Concentration 47 

ent object, — when washing dishes or dusting a 
room. We can learn by this training to concentrate 
on any one subject so that we may be occupied 
with something that is monotonous and distaste- 
ful, yet, in this way, it may be made most inter- 
esting and instructive. Through this technique 
do we learn to control and direct our Thoughts, 
thereby becoming masters of ourselves and, to a 
great extent, of our lives, because it is a Truth that 
it is not Heredity, Environment, nor Experiences 
that count most, but our attitude toward one and 
all of them. 

Concentration for Definite Results 

Please realize that the same technique or method 
is used when treating oneself or others for Health, 
Happiness, Success, Supply. In other words, 
in order to realize and demonstrate or bring into 
outward manifestation a greater supply of the 
"All Good," in any particular way desired at a 
given time. 

The sequence follows: First, the "Vision," the 
picture — see that as you desire it — your highest 
ideal. Then see it for the one whom you are 
treating. If for Supply, see them prosperous, 
money coming in to them, see them happy, spend- 
ing money for the good of others, using it with 
discrimination, living useful lives, etc. Then ex- 
plain to the patient these laws and the technique 
and hold the thought with them. One thing we as 
teachers should impress upon all patients and 
students — i.e. that these are Spiritual Laws 
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48 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

react, and cause great disaster. If, for example, 
one should concentrate for money selfishly, want 
it at any cost, etc., the law would work possibly, 
but the price paid would be very great and no doubt 
the money prove a curse. These laws are those of 
the Christ Consciousness and must be used from 
and with that understanding and on that plane 
only. 

We should first be sure, in at least a general 
way, of what we really "Desire" with our whole 
"Heart," — our "First cause" to which we must 
always be "loyal," as Josiah Royce the great 
philosopher says. Probably if we sit down quietly 
and are honest with ourselves we will realize that 
it is Harmony, Happiness, Peace, for until we 
reach this consciousness we are on the material 
plane of self-consciousness and still looking for 
pleasure, excitement, from life, and have the 
"earth drowse," as Emma Curtis Hopkins says. 
After this it is a question for each individual, 
every day and hour, as to how he or she may demon- 
strate this "Harmony" for him or her self, and 
those with whom they come in contact. This is 
the "Art of Life" and while most complex it is 
intensely interesting. The second step is to 
really decide each day what we feel the need of. 
Walter De Voe says, " Write down your needs, 
read them over, see the words; that will help you 
to be sure that you know or at least believe that 
you know, what you really do need or truly desire." 
Other teachers have suggested putting this written 
request under your pillow at night — so that it 
works through the Subconscious, while the Active 



Concentration 49 

Side is asleep. — Each one may try these differ- 
ent methods and find the one that works best for 
him or her self. 

" Concentration/ ' in order that we may bring 
into demonstration, on the physical plane, some- 
thing which we desire, is the (to the Western 
World) "New Thought" of Prayer. If we read 
carefully the words spoken by Jesus, we will see 
that this was His teaching in regard to prayer. 
"Beloved Ye have these things before Ye ask." 
The Hindus and other peoples of the "Far East' 9 
have, of course, used these methods for ages, and 
through them wrought marvelously. 

With this understanding we can feel the wonder- 
ful "Lord's Prayer," "Thy Kingdom come, thy 
will be done, on earth, through what we call Evo- 
lution — or Nature, but in the "Heaven State," 
or Christ Consciousness, the laws transcend those of 
the "Earth or Self-conscious State": now the 
prayer is, that "We may know and use these 
higher laws ON EARTH in our everyday life." Note 
Jesus the Christ's last prayer — "If possible let 
this cup pass from me, nevertheless THY WILL 
not Mine be done," showing that even Jesus with 
his wonderful consciousness of God, the Father 
within him, realized that he did not have it per- 
fectly, nor wholly, so threw himself out to the God 
of the Universe, knowing that only HIS WILL 
could really be trusted. Because this is a "Truth 
to me," I cannot practice nor teach that it is 
right to "Concentrate" on anything, to bring it 
into Demonstration, by my own will, or that of 
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with — "THOU GREAT I AM THAT I AM, I call on 
"Thee" to bring into Demonstration, that which 
is best for this Soul, now! THY WILL be done/' 
Not with a weak Submission but with a STRONG 
TRUST. That which we see most or on which we 
concentrate, most often, we will of course be most 
likely to bring forth, for, "As a man thinketh in 
his Heart, so is he," and we attract to ourselves 
constantly from our own consciousness (or char- 
acter as we express it) just what we need, in 
order to take the next step. When we Realize 
this we will not be antagonistic to any experi- 
ence that comes to us; but face it, study it, and 
try to learn the lesson for which we attracted it, as 
quickly and harmoniously as possible. 

There is an old saying which has come down with 
many laws from the Eastern Mystics, "That Thou 
seest — that Thou Beest," i.e. : 

For that Thou seest man, 

That too become Thou must, 
God if Thou seest God 

Dust if Thou seest Dust. 

This law is true and works; therefore let us watch ! 
Stop ! Look and listen ! and find out what we are 
seeing most. This law of "Visioning" has been 
understood and used for ages by the Eastern 
Mystics. 

I wish to impress right here, particularly on 
Teachers and Healers, one truth which I feel is 
most important. 

We should look at the negative or weak side only 
long enough to learn a lesson and avoid disaster. 



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There are times when it is necessary to /abnegation 
in order to overcome it. One of the weakest atti- 
tudes, in my estimation, of many Spiritual Healers, 
is that if they are not able to demonstrate Health 
or Prosperity for themselves or others, to say that 
there was so much "adverse thought'' among 
unbelievers in the family or from friends that they 
could not save the life, or bring the desired mani- 
festation. Now if this is true, we have a worse and 
far more dangerous "Devil" than the one we have 
just thrown out. If "negative" thought is 
stronger than affirmative there is no hope for us — 
because at this time there are only a small minority 
on this Earth Planet who have the Cosmic or 
Christ Consciousness to any extent — NO! this 
is not the Law! — One affirmative person is stronger 
than thousands of negative — "God and one are 
a majority." Note the story of "David and 
Goliath." Let us not try to excuse ourselves or 
the law in this weak way, which is both untrue 
and unscientific. Let us acknowledge, as all Good 
Physicians do — The law did not work for some 
unknown reason, which we cannot explain as we do 
not claim to be "Infinite," but are only finite be- 
ings, studying, working, listening, experimenting, 
in order that we may have a higher and fuller con- 
sciousness. We have used these laws and proved 
them enough to know that they are laws, and that 
they work; when they do not demonstrate as we ex- 
pect, we realize that something in regard to the 
machinery or technique was out of order, or that 
a Higher Law worked to transcend this, just as 
having once talked over a telephone and heard the 



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voice of a friend, we know the law is, and when we 
cannot demonstrate, cannot hear or understand, 
we know that the instrument or lines are out of 
order and we send for some one who understands 
the technique, or we work with it ourselves until 
we find the trouble and rectify it. There is this 
difference with regard to the Spiritual Laws; we 
are just beginning to understand them, therefore 
the work is largely experimental or pragmatic. 

When we are not successful according to our 
ideas and are not able to demonstrate Harmony, 
let us use the two laws we do know, i.e. Love and 
nonresistance. We never accomplished anything 
Spiritually, by Force. Let go! Stop working, 
probably we are trying too hard in our way. Let 
go! and realize the God working through each 
Soul, using the method most needed by that Soul. 
After we have done all we can — we should detach 
ourselves from the patients and simply "Love" 
them, and Trust the God of the Universe to work 
through them, demonstrating what is best for them. 
Our responsibility ends there and we should not 
try to take it nor to explain "When Knowledge 
fails, we must Trust." God's vision and plan is 
Infinite. We cannot in this stage of development 
understand perfectly. For this reason let us be 
moderate in our "claims"; not limit ourselves, 
but on the other hand not make claims that we 
"can cure all diseases" nor make every one, includ- 
ing ourselves, "perfectly happy" at all times, nor 
bring millions of money in by simply sitting and 
"thinking" money, etc., etc. These rash extreme 
statements have antagonized many sane, sensible 



Concentration 53 

people and retarded the growth of Christ Con- 
sciousness. Let us rather keep the attitude of 
Jesus the Christ, "It is not me, but the "Father 
within me 9 ' — He is Infinite, knows all. We are 
finite, while in essence we are a part of the God Life, 
The All Good; we have as yet brought out in mani- 
festation only a tiny speck of this wonderful Life, 
but we are working, asking, for Wisdom, lovingly, 
humbly, but strongly and with Faith and Trust, 
thereby growing steadily and surely, more fully 
into the Great Christ, or Cosmic Consciousness, or 
knowledge of the "Whole." 

Meditation — "Going into the Silence " 

Meditation is the opposite of Concentration. — 
It is a letting go of the Personal Will and opening 
to the "God Mind" or Subconscious of the Uni- 
verse in order to receive new light, wisdom, power, 
from the Source, from each and every part of the 
Mind of the Universe, for they are all one and are 
attached. Concentration and Meditation should 
be used alternately. The Western World has 
used the former to the extreme and neglected the 
latter, while the Eastern World has emphasized 
the latter and neglected the former, and both have 
paid the price accordingly. Since the meeting of 
the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago 
at the time of the World's Fair, when Swami 
Vivekananda, the Great Hindu Teacher, came with 
his message, the Eastern and Western Worlds have 
been getting nearer and nearer together and, as he 
prophesied, each is helping the other and together 
we shall accomplish Great work along all lines. 



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Technique 

Go alone — sit quietly in comfortable position 
— relax — at first direct the objective mind and 
concentrate on the "Unity" of the Universe, 
God the All Good (according to suggestions in first 
lesson) . Then open the mind and let it go out into 
the Universe. 

Think of the enormity of it — the immeasurable 
Space between the Earth Planet and the Sun, also 
the many, many Planets, Solar Systems; try to 
realize, as far as as your mind will go, the wonder 
of it all! And back of all the "One Life," working 
according to exact Laws, this immeasurable, 
living, pulsing "Cosmos." 

Ideas will flow into and through your brain; let 
them come easily, quietly. If you find your mind 
wandering to material things, listen a moment; it 
may be some message, some problem not solved, 
something forgotten, that you wish to do — if so, 
write down a memorandum of it. That will clear 
the Subconscious. Then direct the mind again 
to God — Look up ! with the inner sense — the 
inner eye, God says, through a prophet, "Look 
unto me and be thou saved" This attitude will 
help to keep the mind open to the Spirit. Then 
just let it flow in. Feel the wonderful Life flow- 
ing in and quieting you; let the ideas and thoughts 
flow in — feel that God is talking to you through 
the minds of friends who love you, and are anxious 
to help you. Then, as these friends come into 
your consciousness (those who are still in this 
life and those who have gone on to another), 



Concentration 55 

listen ! You will get thought messages, accept them. 
Send Love to them (for the law of this, read Lesson 
on Telepathy), commune with all of them. Then 
think of Jesus, the wonderful Master, the one who 
had such an intense Consciousness of The God 
within all — who taught and lived "Love" — of 
Buddha, who to the people of the Eastern World 
was their Highest and fullest demonstration of the 
all good. Then realize that these and all other 
Souls are still in existence somewhere in the Uni- 
verse and that we can receive help from them at 
any time we so wish. After meditating in this 
way quietly for as long a time as you wish send 
thoughts of "Love" out to all the Universe, and 
then send thoughts of Health, Strength, Happi- 
ness, Success, Wisdom, to all whom you are help- 
ing. Then declare the same for yourself — and 
finish with Peace, Be still! Peace, Peace — This 
"Meditation" is my method for "Going into the 
Silence." 

During this hour it is well to close the eyes for 
a part of the time, and if so you will notice the 
light you see changing color. At first it will be 
dark, then probably red — as you become quiet 
and as the Spirit flows through into you, the light 
will change to pink or violet, which are the most 
Spiritual Colors. 

Now while these are the methods I have gathered 
in part from many teachers, applied to myself, 
and used successfully, I give them out to others 
as suggestions only, for each individual Soul must 
find its own path eventually and prove it. 

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56 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

you will find that you can concentrate and medi- 
tate while in a street car, on a train, motoring, 
(particularly in the country), even in the midst of 
a crowd! No matter how disagreeable the sur- 
roundings may be, you will learn that in this way 
you can create your own world and live in it at will. 

Books on Concentration 

" Just How to Concentrate,' ' by Elizabeth Towne. 

"Concentration the Law of Success," by Henry Harrison 
Brown. 

"Concentration — Why and How to Concentrate," by 
Julia Seton, M.D. 

"First Steps in Concentration," by Frederick Keeler. 

There are of course many others, but these are 
not expensive, are small, clear and concise. 





Lesson VI 

THE AUTHORS INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDE 
TOWARD DOCTORS AND MEDICINE 

ANY Teachers and Healers, call- 
ing themselves by different names, 
take a very negative attitude 
toward all Doctors and Medicine. 
I personally feel that by so doing 
they deny their first conclusion 
and the Premise upon which they 
build, in order to explain and use the laws which 
they teach. 

After thinking and studying the laws of' the 
Universe, the latest Science and Religion, we con- 
cluded that (as the leaders along both these lines 
agree to-day) we are living in and are a part of a 
"Universe" which is a living, pulsing, throbbing 
"Cosmos," the Life Essence of which is ONE AND 
THE SAME in and through all. This Life Essence 
is the "NO THING" the so-called "Ether of Space," 
the inside and the outside, that in which every- 
thing "lives and moves and has its being." 

Now the first law of this life (Henry Bergson 
the French Philosopher says) is to express, and 

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all forms are the different, more or less imperfect, 
unfinished expressions of this Life. While these 
forms are constantly changing, the life is always 
the same. It cannot be hurt nor lost (as we 
learn in a later lesson on Spirit and Matter). As 
Emma Curtis Hopkins says, "A principle is a 
comprehensive law or doctrine from which others 
are derived." That is, everything that ever was 
or ever will come into manifestation must be in 
this Life Essence. Now we have concluded after 
our study that in the last analysis this "Life 
Force," "Eternal Energy," is "good"; "per- 
fect." It is called by Religionists "The All 
Good" (in Twenty -three languages), "God," 
"The Father," "The Great i am that i am." 
Different peoples in various localities have given 
it these different names, but all agree that it is 
"each soul's highest conception of all that is Good 
and Beautiful, Powerful, Wise, and Loving." 

Now all metaphysical Teachers and Healers start 
with this conclusion — that "ALL the Essence of 
Life" is Good. There is no entity in so-called 
"Evil " ; as darkness is the absence of light, so evil is 
the absence of, or unfinished, good in Demonstra- 
tion. But there can be no all bad, after once hav- 
ing started with the conclusion and premise that 
"All is Good." For example, a green apple on a 
tree is not bad, but green, — unfinished; given 
time and proper conditions it will manifest ripe- 
ness, and very nearly perfection. 

Now after arriving at this point in our study 
can we say that Doctors, or Medicine, in fact 
anything in the Universe is Bad? not to be recog- 



Attitude Toward Doctors and Medicine 59 

nized? I say no! We must stand by our con- 
clusion and make the reversed statement that 
"Everything, even in demonstration, is good in its 
time and place, and in proper proportion/' That 
even that which in demonstration may seem un- 
pleasant to us we must recognize as "Good in the 
making," have no condemnation, and, unless we 
can help it to a better expression, pass on. Among 
the New Thoughts, or Theories, advanced by 
Scientists to-day, is this one, —that "everything in 
the Universe is in a State of vibration"; there is 
nothing (in the last analysis, as they say) abso- 
lutely still, quiet, nor solid. Everything is vibrat- 
ing, and there are different rates of this vibration. 
They say "mind" is of a higher vibration than 
Body, and Soul or Spirit of course the Highest of 
all; because it is the original essence, the Store 
House, or "Motor," vibrating the Whole. This 
being true, the Spirit, or individual part of Spirit 
which I call the Soul, should control all lower 
vibrations. It is on this law that all Spiritual, 
Mental, Divine, Faith Healing is founded. 

When we have this realization that because 
we are each a "Soul," which is part of this "God 
Spirit," and our body is a demonstration of this 
same Spirit at a lower vibration, we understand 
that — if we knew the law of connection perfectly, 
we should be able always to keep the Spirit or 
Soul in control of the Body, and all other lower 
vibrations. In that case we would always be well, 
happy, successful, contented — "in Harmony," — 
in other words in the "Heaven" State. 

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have I heard any one claim that they have known 
one Soul who has demonstrated this perfect con- 
trol in this life. We have read in history of many 
Saints who have had wonderful realizations, and 
lived almost perfect lives, showing that their Soul, 
or Spirit, controlled their bodies to a wonderful 
extent. Yet there were times when, if we can 
believe history at all, they lost Faith and "let go," 
and as we express it, showed the "human" or im- 
perfect, material side in control. Even as Jesus 
on the Cross is said to have called out "Father, 
if it be possible let this cup pass from me" — -then 
quickly regaining the Spiritual Control, "never- 
theless not my will but Thine be done." 

Now I believe with even the Extremest Idealist 
in all these laws because we cannot limit the Power 
of God the All Good. I believe in "hitching my 
wagon to a star," as Emerson says, but as Jacob 
Jastrow says, I believe in "using horses here and 
now." 

For example, supposing we have electric light in 
our house, the wire and attachments are all put 
in, according to the best system known. Some 
night we are suddenly left in darkness — what do 
we do? I speak for myself; I, of course, try to get 
some one who understands the laws of this science, 
as quickly as possible. I know the "Law" is 
still there, and will work if we find the trouble 
with the connection and readjust it, but I do not 
sit in the dark if I can light gas, an oil lamp, or even 
a candle. For I prefer a little light to none, and 
believe in using the lower law, even if less com- 
fortable, rather than wait in the dark until the 



Attitude Toward Doctors and Medicine 61 

higher law can be made to work. I feel that the 
same ideas work along all lines. If I want to go 
from one place to another quickly, I naturally 
in these days try to get an automobile or go on a 
train, but if I cannot get one of these, I would 
take the next best way available at the time. 

I understand this Planet called the "Earth" to 
be one of the marvelous "Expressions" of the 
"all good," "spirit," "God," of the Universe — 
everything on it from the tiniest bit of stone or 
rock to the highest evolution of man and woman, 
expressions of the Same Life, Spirit. Each mani- 
festation working according to its own laws. 

Man (meaning of course man or woman), being 
the highest manifestation and having evolved a 
"Brain" through which he can study these laws, 
may "have dominion" over all other manifesta- 
tions, as he learns the laws of each and uses them 
accordingly. 

This being true, is there any more important or 
interesting study than the "Body" of man or 
woman, this being the "Temple," the Home 
of the "Soul" (or a part of the Spirit of God)? 
And with this study, as with that of everything, 
should be acquired the knowledge of the way in 
which to repair it when it is out of order. The 
study of this "Human Machine" has evolved two 
branches, that of so-called "Materia Medica," 
or Medicine, the giving internally of differently 
prepared solids, liquids, or plants, and Surgery. 
No physician or surgeon of any reputation claims 
that either of these systems is infallible, or an 
exact Science. The leaders along these lines, as 



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with all others, are continually experimenting, 
finding new and better systems, and this is the 
only way of progress. I feel that a man or woman 
who makes his or her life work the Study of the 
Human Body or any part of it, in order to demon- 
strate for as many as possible Health, — freedom from 
suffering, and pain, — thereby making a larger pro- 
portion of Happiness in this world, has chosen the 
highest, most practical, and most spiritual work 
to be done in this life without regard to the System 
they may choose, from Spiritual Science to the 
giving of Medicine, and Surgery. While I per- 
sonally, as I have said earlier in this lesson, believe 
that "if" we knew how to use the laws of Spirit 
perfectly we could keep well, and while I know from 
many experiences, with myself and many others, 
that by using "Spiritual Science" (the laws by 
which we may use "Spirit" in order to control 
matter, "Soul" to demonstrate over Body), 
wonderful cures have been made, I acknowledge 
that I am not always able to demonstrate these 
laws. There are times when for reasons for which 
I cannot account they do not work satisfactorily. 
When this occurs I use, and advise all who come 
to me to do the same, the next laws I know, and 
send for a Doctor, Surgeon, or Dentist (according 
to the needs) , but I send for the one in whom I have 
the greatest confidence, in every way. Then I use 
my thought and the laws of the Spirit to help him, 
and every good physician, surgeon and dentist 
knows and admits that this attitude on the part 
of the patient and nurse assists greatly toward 
the recovery of the patient. It is a truth to me 



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that what the world needs most at this time is 
moderation, and discrimination. This is the 
age of specialization, and the danger lies in over- 
specializing — i.e., seeing "The Truth" from 
one angle only. We must learn to be openminded 
and inclusive, to endeavor to see everything from 
as many different angles as possible, for in that 
way do we see the greatest truth. When we 
act separately we fail — "All working together 
for Good" is God's Law. Let us keep this ever 
in our minds. 

I feel from personal experience that the German 
Scientists and those of other countries who have 
spent weary hours studying out combinations of 
"Matter" that can be given as "anaesthetics," 
thereby relieving human beings from pain during 
operations, and making marvelous work through 
surgery possible; those who, after years of hard 
and patient study and self-denial, have discovered 
cures for tuberculosis and other heretofore sup- 
posedly incurable diseases, are giving as wonder- 
ful and important expressions of the "All Good 
Life" of the Universe as any so-called Teacher or 
Healer of Spiritual or Christian Science, or as 
any Priest or Religious Teacher. "ALL GOOD" 
manifestation along all lines is necessary; "Unity" 
of Life, Diversity of Expression. I will say in 
closing this lesson that I feel the Ideals of one who 
chooses the Life of a physician, surgeon or healer 
of any kind, should be very high. 

There is no position in life, I believe, where 
there is as great an opportunity for demonstrat- 
ing the strongest character attainable as in this 



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field. A physician enters into the sacred precincts 
of family and individual life and should have the 
highest sense of honor and a very inclusive Spiri- 
tual Consciousness. If he begins his career with 
those ideals there is no work in this life, I believe, 
that will give him a greater number of opportuni- 
ties to grow spiritually than in this wonderful 
one of relieving pain and suffering. 

Good, honest, conscientious, faithful, noncom- 
mercial Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists, Spiritual 
Science, Christian Science, Healers, are needed. 
They should all work together for Good; and then, 
as "Mr. Dooley" says, "it doesn't make much 
difference which we have if we have a Good Nurse." 

In my former lessons I have mentioned, among 
other physicians, who have demonstrated won- 
derfully through suggestion, etc., Dr. John D. 
Quackenbos, M.D. He has just published a book, 
"Body and Spirit," an inquiry into the sub- 
conscious. I strongly advise all students and 
Teachers to read this, as it is one of the most 
clear, concise, and practical books that has ever 
been published. He gives the names of several 
physicians who have worked sucessfully along 
these lines. Among these are Dr. C. C. Wholey 
of Pittsburgh, Pa., whom I know personally and 
for whom I have the greatest respect and in whom 
I have much confidence, and Professor Henry 
Upson of Cleveland, Ohio, whom I know by repu- 
tation. I believe that there are many others who 
have accepted the newer and higher standard and 
by so doing will add greatly to the efficiency of 
physicians and surgeons. 







Lesson VII 

SPIRIT AND MATTER, AS CONSIDERED 

BY MANY OF THE SCIENTISTS AND 

RELIGIONISTS TO-DAY 

F we are really Truth Seekers, we 
take as our premise the state- 
ment that "there is nothing 
higher or greater than Truth." 
When we realize the "Unity" of 
the Universe, we have the con- 
ception of "God" as the Perfect, 
Divine Life Principle of the Universe, rather than 
the old childish conception of some kind of a 
person outside, at a distance, — we believe and 
know certain things in a mystic or psychic way. 
We say we feel, we know them intuitively. We 
have experiences which, while real to us, would not 
be so to others, and which we could not prove to 
them, because they can understand only on what 
we call the "Material Plane," or through the five 
senses. 

We learn from reading the history of the ages 
past that there have always been souls who saw 

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away ahead of their time, who had these mystic 
experiences. 

William James, in his wonderful book, "Varieties 
of Religious Experience," gives many examples 
of this kind, and Dr. Bucke, in his book, " Cosmic 
Consciousness," gives the results of his research 
and study of such phenomena, comparing the 
experiences of many souls who have had great 
spiritual experiences, conversions, new births, 
"illuminations." 

We who have studied and realized along these 
lines may be interested to take a glance at the 
point of view to-day taken by so-called material 
scientists and orthodox theologians. I have 
therefore gathered from several of the greatest 
minds of this time their arrival in regard to the 
Unity of the Universe, and find as a result of this 
study that Science, Philosophy, Religion, and 
spiritual Realization are united at last; there is 
no longer any warfare. 

"Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern 
Science" — In his latest book with this title, I. W. 
Heysinger, M.A., M.D., of Philadelphia, begins 
with chapter first as follows; "If the time was ever 
to come in the religious history of the human race 
when what may be called God's Science of Man 
was to supersede Theology, which is Man's Science 
of God, that time is already here." 

This is the attitude of all serious investigators 
along different lines to-day. Psychologists are 
realizing and demonstrating more and more won- 
derful phenomena in regard to the action of the 
mind, conscious and sub- or unconscious, its 



Spirit and Matter 67 

effect on the body, etc. Biologists are tracing all 
human, animal, and vegetable life back to "pro- 
toplasm," the same "Life or Germ." Mineralo- 
gists and geologists have arrived at the atomic 
theory that the Universe including all so-called 
dead matter, stones, rocks, etc., is composed of 
more or less minute atoms, all of which are vi- 
brating at different rates of speed, constantly 
changing, rearranging themselves, and thus pro- 
ducing different metals and solids. A. Dastre, 
Professor of the Sarbonne, Paris, in an article 
published in the Annual Report of the Board of 
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902, says, 
"Everything is at work; everything in nature 
toils and strives at every stage and every degree." 
Immobility, repose, are usually in natural things 
merely a false appearance. The seeming quietude 
of matter is caused by our inability to appreciate 
its interior agitation. Because of their minute- 
ness we do not perceive the swarming particles 
that compose it and under which the impassable 
surface of bodies, oscillate, displace each other, — 
move to and fro and group themselves into forms 
and positions adapted to the conditions of the 
environment. 

In comparison with these microscopic elements 
we are like the Giant of Swift in the midst of the 
people of Lilliput. And this is far below the 
actual fact. It was Lord Kelvin who first spoke 
of the "fatigue of metals, or the fatigue of elas- 
ticity," and since then Bose showed for these same 
bodies the fatigue of electric touch. All processes 
of making steel, glass, brass, and everything that 



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is manufactured are simply the readjustment and 
rearranging by different methods, of the atoms or 
molecules. 

Man, the highest manifestation of the one 
Divine Perfect Life, is learning the laws of the 
lower vibrations and working according to these 
laws to produce different effects. 

As Sir Oliver Lodge says, "We ourselves may 
become creators, not by working outside laws, 
but by learning the laws of God and working in 
harmony with them. 9 ' 

This acceptance and realization of the One Life 
in, and through all, gives us the newer and higher 
Idea of God, or the "All Good," as the Perfect, 
Divine Principle, the "Spirit," that which we can- 
not see, feel, hear or smell, but only "know," and 
we go back to the old definition in the Bible, "God 
is Spirit," but we now feel we have a much better 
understanding of what that means. To continue 
along scientific lines still farther, we find Robert 
Kennedy Duncan, F.C.S., one of the greatest 
chemists of the day (who passed on in 1914) 
commencing his new book, " The New Knowledge," 
thus, — "When a man begins to think seriously of 
the world, or worlds, around about him, he is at 
first dazed by the seeming complexity of it all. 
Thousands of phenomena confront him, inextric- 
ably tangled, and there seems to be no simple way 
of coordinating them. That the Universe must 
be harmonious is a fundamental demand of our 
human nature. Nor is this faith misplaced. Just 
as soon as we actually begin to sort things out, 
matters proceed with gratifying smoothness, and 



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it soon becomes apparent that one may place all 
he knows of this Universe of space and time 
into just exactly three compartments. These com- 
partments we shall label, — 1. Matter, 2. Ether, 
3. Energy. These are three physical entities out- 
side of which, so far as we understand the physical 
Universe, there is nothing, and into which the 
universal content of the mind of man, so far as it 
concerns things outside of itself, may be stored 
away." 

Mr. Duncan then proceeds to define "Matter," 
and says that we may distinguish it from the other 
two compartments by saying that "Matter is 
that which occupies space and possesses weight." 
Using these two properties, it is readily possible to 
sift out matter from all the heterogeneous phe- 
nomena that present themselves to the senses. 
Thus wood, water, copper, oil, and air are forms of 
matter. But light, heat, electricity, and magnet- 
ism, we cannot consider to fill so many quarts 
or weigh so many pounds. 

They are therefore forms of non-matter. In 
like manner things such as grace, mercy, justice, 
and truth, while they are existing entities as much 
as matter, are unquestionably non-matter. "Now, 
governing matter in all its varied forms," says Mr. 
Duncan, "there is one great fundamental law which 
up to this time has been iron-clad in its character. 
This law, known as the law of the conservation 
of mass, states that no particle of matter, however 
small, may be created or destroyed. All the 
king's horses and all the king's men cannot de- 
stroy a pin's head. We may smash that pin's 



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head, dissolve it in acid, burn it up in an electric 
furnace, employ in a word every annihilating 
agency, and yet that pin's head persists in being. 

"Again, it is as uncreatable as it is indestruct- 
ible. In other words, we cannot create something 
out of nothing. The material must be furnished 
for every existent article. In the foregoing state- 
ments we have used the conceptions of the older 
science — but to say that throughout all time we 
never should be able to destroy or create matter, 
or to say indeed, that matter is not to some extent 
being created and destroyed to-day, would be to 
run the risk of profound error. All we can say 
to-day is, that we cannot do it. If creation or 
annihilation is going on, we are mere spectators, 
and stand in no causal relation." 

Mr. Duncan then takes up "Ether," as follows: 

"Any discussion of ether leads out upon the 
highroad to incredibility. A thing must be de- 
fined by its properties, and the properties of ether 
are for the most part negative; so negative indeed 
are they, that when one says boldly that we cannot 
see ether, hear it, taste it, smell it, exhaust it, 
weigh it, or measure it, one feels timid that sane- 
minded people will meet those negative qualities 
of our ether by a decided negation of belief in 
its existence. But the fact of the matter is, that 
if this thing Ether, is not visible to the eye of 
sense, it is visible to the eye of the mind, which 
is much less liable to err." 

Mr. Duncan then explains the little instrument 
called the radiometer, and that as the light strikes 
this, it causes a little aluminum mill-wheel to re- 



Spirit and Matter 71 

volve at such a velocity that one cannot distin- 
guish the separate vanes, proving that there are 
"waves of light"; and he proceeds, "Once con- 
vinced that light consists of waves, the mind in- 
sists that these waves shall inhere in something. 
The ocean waves are made of water, sound waves 
of air, light waves of, we must say, something. 
This something cannot be air or water, or any 
form of matter, as we know it, for throughout that 
great reach of 93,000,000 of miles between the 
sun and us there exists but empty space. Filled 
this empty space is, however, and to the brim. 
There is no such thing as emptiness. From corner 
to corner of the Universe, wherever a star shines, 
or light darts, there broods this vast circumam- 
bient medium — the ' Ether,' not only through 
interstellar spaces, but through the world also, 
in all its manifold complexity, through our own 
bodies; all lie, not only encompassed by it, but 
soaking in it, as a sponge lies soaked in water. 
How much we ourselves are ' matter,' and how 
much 'Ether' is in these days a very meet ques- 
tion." 

Now to define "Energy." (I still quote from 
Mr. Duncan's book.) "Just as there is no such 
thing as emptiness, so there is no such thing as 
'rest.' It is doubtful that there is such a thing 
as rest, even in a relative sense. The very par- 
ticles that constitute the materials of our so- 
solid seeming earth, that seem so fixed and at rest 
relatively to one another, are in a state of per- 
petual unremitting quiver — what we call tem- 
perature; and that quivering, had we eyes big 



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enough to see it, is very far indeed removed from 
rest. 

"Now, this motion is continually changing from 
one velocity to another, and the same kind of 
reasoning that led us to believe in the Ether leads 
us to believe that a body can go faster or slower 
only because of some sense. This cause, or this 
power to change the state of motion of a body, is 
energy. 

"Just as matter may exist in so many different 
forms, so may energy, — a list of forms of which 
we append : — 

1. Kinetic Energy. 

2. Gravitation Energy. 

3. Energy of Elasticity. 

4. Heat. 

5. Cohesion Energy. 

6. Chemical Energy. 

7. Electrical Energy. 

8. Magnetic Energy. 

9. Radiant Energy. 

"This list comprises 'forms' of energy and not 
* different energies,' for the reason that they are 
one and all intervertible. Energy is protean in 
its nature, for it may be converted directly or in- 
directly into any other form. They are, therefore, 
different phases of one thing, not different things. 
For example, the energy of the burning coal is 
converted consecutively into heat, into mechanical 
energy, into electrical energy, and finally, in some 
far-away street, into the radiant energy of the arc 
lamp. It is possible even, that these very 'forms' 



Spirit and Matter 73 

may not be distinct from one another, actually, 
but are simply so many different varieties of 
motion. 

"However that may be, energy is not only 
transformable, but transferable. In a word we 
may transfer energy from one body to another 
indefinitely. We may load the energy from a 
waterfall into a dynamo, and from the dynamo 
into a sewing machine. Matter is but a stepping- 
stone to energy, here and away, through one form 
to another, and from one body to another, in- 
finitely restless, constant only in one thing, its 
total quantity. However much energy may be 
transformed or transferred, when any quantity 
of one form disappears, a precisely equal quantity 
simultaneously appears, in some other form or 
forms. Just as with matter, you cannot create or 
destroy any quantity of energy however small, 
and since energy is the great worker of the Uni- 
verse, you cannot get something for nothing. No 
machine can make energy, and it is curious that 
this fact is so little understood of men that, accord- 
ing to rumor, the Patent Office finds it necessary 
to employ a special clerk to deal with persons who 
believe in perpetual motion. It will readily be 
seen, then, that since energy may be transformed 
from one form into another, since it may equally 
well be transferred from one body to another, and 
since, moreover, it cannot be created or destroyed, 
we have precisely the same grounds for believing 
in its existence as an actual entity as we had for 
believing in the existence of matter. It is proper 
for us to hold as reasonable the view that energy 



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is an existing "thing. 5 Concerning the dictum 
of current science, that it is impossible to create 
or destroy it, we ought to make the same pro- 
vision as we did with matter, that while it may 
not be forever and forever indestructible and un- 
creatable, and while it may be even now suffering 
annihilation, we have no control over it. The 
doctrine of the conservation of energy is receiv- 
ing some hard knocks nowadays, and whether 
or not it is weakening will be for the future to 
determine. 

"We have, thus, reduced the Universe to three 
terms — Matter, Ether, and Energy, and we ought 
now to consider whether this triune conception 
may be capable of deeper synthesis. We have all, 
I imagine, a deep-seated conviction of the essen- 
tial 'oneness' of the Universe, and to justify it, 
we must assume, either that these three things 
are after all but ' forms' or phases of an under- 
lying and unknowable reality, or that, separate 
and distinct as they appear, they are themselves 
one in some mysterious way, altogether beyond 
the power of human reason to grasp." 

Atoms 

"We have said that when a molecule of common 
salt is broken down, there results a particle of 
sodium and a particle of chlorine. These particles, 
the constituents of molecules, are the atom of 
matter. Instead, therefore, of defining a compound 
as a substance composed of elements, we may say 
that a compound is a substance the molecules of 
which are made up of the atoms of the element. 



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There are, of course, as many different atoms as 
there are elements. When atoms of like kind unite 
together, we have the elements of matter: — 
when of unlike kind, the compounds of matter. 
Now, since there are some seventy elements, there 
are some seventy kinds of atoms, and when we 
think of the varied number of combinations and 
permutations, so to speak, that may be brought 
about by tying together different numbers, and 
different kinds of, say, seventy odd marbles, it is 
no matter for wonder that there are some two 
hundred and fifty thousand molecules. A sub- 
stance is ex-molecules, and a molecule is a little 
building, of which the atoms are the bricks. We 
may now re-define our definitions. 

"A molecule is the smallest particle of a sub- 
stance that can exist in a free state, containing 
the same composition as any larger mass of the 
substance. 

"An atom is the smallest particle of an element 
that exists in any molecule. 

"A compound is a substance whose molecule 
contains two or more kinds of atom. 

"An element is a substance whose molecule 
contains only one kind of atom." 

Mr. Duncan then proceeds to explain Radio Ac- 
tivity, Periodic Law, Corpuscles, Different Rays, 
Radium; in fact, all the latest wonderful dis- 
coveries and ideas along these lines. 

This "Unity" of the Universe is realized by the 
most profound thinkers of philosophy and the- 
ology. Professor George Burman Poster of the 
University of Chicago, in liis book, "The Function 



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of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence," after 
speaking of organism, says: — 

"Now what is true with reference to organism 
in general holds good of the soul. In this regard, 
the soul is a being of the same kind as the body, 
that is, it is a system striving for its own preser- 
vation, only not through externally visible and 
tangible, but solely through inwardly experienced, 
formations and functions. This was the view 
even of Spinoza, and more recently of Fechner. 
That the preservation was maintained, by conflict 
with what was given an external phenomena, as 
4 outside world,' is an insight whose general recog- 
nition is traceable to the influence of Charles 
Darwin: and the part played in psychic world- 
being, by the living out and working out psychic 
energies and endowments is at bottom an opinion 
as old as Aristotle. If, to-day, we could inwardly 
unify these relevant factors from Spinoza and 
Fechner, from Aristotle and Darwin, we should 
gain a general view of the soul, that would bring 
our thought into harmony once more with the 
basic concepts of our scientific knowledge. At 
all events, the point which we have now reached 
is that the soul is not a static entity with attri- 
butes and properties, as it was according to the 
belief of the first era of which I have spoken, nor 
is it a system of ideas like the atoms of the physi- 
cal science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- 
ries. The association-psychology was of a piece 
with that whole mechanical way of looking at 
reality. To-day the psychologists think of the 
soul as a psychic-physiological organism. I have 



Spirit and Matter 77 

the impression that when the collective con- 
sciousness becomes thoroughly habituated to Mod- 
ern Science, our words, 'Soul and Body,' as well as 
* Matter and Spirit/ will drop out of our language; 
much, as I shall continue to use them in this ad- 
dress, quite as we speak of the rising and setting of 
the sun. (There is no such thing as a self-depend- 
ent soul, freely active or interactive within an or- 
ganism which we call the body, just as similarly 
there is no self-dependent Deity freely active or 
interactive within that larger body which we call 
Cosmos.) 

"All this is a survival of primitive animism, 
which populated the whole world with spirits, 
demons, hobgoblins; in short, with soul-like beings 
which were related to things much as we think 
the soul is connected with the body, or God with 
the Universe. I mean that soul and body are 
not two beings confronting each other as inde- 
pendent and interoperative; but that they are one 
being giving account of itself in a twofold manner. 

"As it exhibits itself as unspatial, ceaselessly 
changing, and yet in many ways identical, syn- 
thesis of sense impressions, thoughts, feelings, 
wishes, ideals, endeavors, we call it Soul: but as 
it is something extended, pliable, convoluted, 
cellular, fibrous, we call it brain and nervous 
system, as if there were two separate entities, ex- 
ternally encountering each other in interaction. 
They are only one reality, but at one time such as 
known of itself immediately, and is for itself, at 
another time such as exhibits itself to others, 
similar realities. 



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"I am trying to indicate that the immanence of 
a free or unfree soul entity in a body is quite as 
unintelligible to psychology as the immanence of a 
free or unfree god entity in the Cosmos is unintel- 
ligible to philosophical reflection. To repeat, it is 
a Psycho-physiological organism with whose self- 
preservation and self -completion we have to do. 

"Now, in order to preserve itself in conflict 
with the ' outside world,' this organism requires 
orientation concerning this world. In the im- 
pressions evoked by outside influence it gains the 
material for the effectuation of its peculiarity. 
This psychic organism inwardly produces mani- 
fold activities of connecting concentrating con- 
structive character, and the results thereof appear 
ultimately again in visible motions of the external 
organs. Briefly summarized, these are impres- 
sions springing from the processes of the ' outside 
world"; the inner psychic elaborations of these 
impressions, the reactions consequent and appro- 
priate thereto. I am indicating that, for purposes 
of its self-preservation and its self-consumma- 
tion, the soul generates organs and functions. 
For example, do you need to be informed con- 
cerning the 'outside world' so that you can move 
around in it without breaking your neck? You 
receive this needed orientation concerning the 
* outside world' through sensation mediated by 
sense organs, through colors and sounds and 
smells and a number of other sensations. Again, 
is your instruction concerning the 'outside world' 
through sensation inadequate for the needs of the 
organism? Do you need to know something of 



Spirit and Matter 79 

the past and future, and what exists hidden be- 
hind the hill? The soul generates ideas which 
will extend your mastery beyond the here and the 
now. In this way you can see things with your 
eyes closed, and hear things with your ears 
stopped. You are not fastened down absolutely 
to the material present of things with which you 
have to do. You can bear about with you the pos- 
sibility of a certain realization of the peculiarities 
and processes of things that are absent or remote. 

"Still again, what attitude shall you assume 
toward objects with which you become acquainted 
by a sensation and idea? Are the things in the 
world contributing to the weal or to the woe of the 
psycho-physiological organism? For purposes of 
its welfare, the soul has generated with feelings of 
pleasure and pain, evaluating the impressions 
which orient it concerning the 'outside world.' 
The soul must know how to employ objective 
things for its battle of self-preservation. Thus 
it equips itself with pleasure, pain feelings, by 
which it determines whether or not its situation 
is beneficial or injurious to its life, or whether it 
needs to take some new task as it battles with the 
winds and waves of existence." 

To return to I. W. Heysinger's book, previously 
referred to, we have from a noted physician and 
surgeon, also a student of psychic phenomena, 
spiritualism, telepathy, and all the latest thought 
along all lines, the following : — quoting Romanes, 
who said, "God is, till grudged his own Universe." 
He then gives — "The Psychism of the Universe." 
as follows; 



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"The whole history of the race demonstrates, 
by an accumulation of evidence perfectly irresist- 
ible to those who care for evidence, that the 
psychical, the spiritual, both in man, and extra to 
the man, have been the great interacting and con- 
trolling factors of human advancement. 

"And these conceded factors, constituting the 
universal consensus of all mankind, through all 
ages of mankind, have been absolutely identical, 
and are to-day precisely what they have always 
been hitherto, and everywhere, in the past. 

"These fundamental propositions, apparently 
inherent in, or else revealed to the human race, 
and universally employed as the only basis of 
ethics, as well as of religion, and as well of spiritual- 
ism, are as follows : — 

"1. A transcendental, spiritual, intelligent 
power, universal in scope, in space and time, and 
in potency, which power is the formative pre- 
servative and restorative agency of nature. 

" 2. Direct and recognized action of this power 
upon and through similar, but less extensive, 
spirituality of man, to mold, to control, and to 
preserve and protect the human organism and its 
energies. 

"3. The persistence of this spiritual individu- 
ality of man after death. 

"4. Intercommunion between the human spiri- 
tual personality and the like spiritualities of de- 
parted human beings, under various conditions, 
at particular times, and for special purposes. 
This superhuman consciousness, which constitutes 
the basis of all religion, ever present and ever 



Spirit and Matter 81 

acting, is the same consciousness which consti- 
tutes the basis of modern spiritualism: there is no 
difference in kind at all, and only slight differences 
in degree; and these differences constantly and 
imperceptibly shade into each other, so that no 
line of demarcation can anywhere be drawn 
between modern spiritualism and the universal 
psychical or religious knowledge of all past ages 
and all peoples. 

"In all history the fact stands out undisputed 
that the great principles of modern spiritualism 
have never been denied among mankind, save by 
a few modern teachers whose inquiries have been 
purposely confined, by deliberate choice or 
narrowness of vision, to the gross material plane 
alone, and a multitude of their ignorant followers 
who, believing that they have accepted the hy- 
pothesis of these philosophers, have, in fact, gar- 
bled them beyond recognition. Besides these, the 
boasted doctrine of negation or agnosticism has 
only included the lower animals, and not, it is 
probable, even all classes of these. 

"Modern Spiritualism is thus not a new thing 
— its denial is the new thing, and it ought not 
logically to stand at the bar of science to establish 
its facts: they have been already established, for 
it has more and more been proven, and is now 
firmly established, that no belief universal in 
scope and in time has ever been without a foun- 
dation of truth for its basis. It is upon and by 
means of these very truths that science itself has 
been established and developed. 

"But spiritualism gladly accepts the challenge, 



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for it clearly recognizes that only in the continuance 
and multiplicity of obvious spiritual phenomena 
can the truth of a future life be made universally 
manifest. The fountain must continue to flow 
in order to prove that it has ever flowed, for the 
forces and mechanism are, and must be, the same 
yesterday, to-day, and forever." 

Mr. Heysinger continues to bring out the 
"Unity of Spirit and Matter," and has several 
interesting chapters of authentic records of psychic 
phenomena of different kinds, and arrives through 
these studies of the spiritual and psychic at the 
same conclusion as that of Mr. Duncan and other 
scientists, and Mr. Foster and other theologians. 
I feel that I can give no better last word than the 
final chapter of the "New Knowledge." 

"We began our present work by attempting to 
show the need felt by men of science of reducing 
the physical Universe to a condition of ' Oneness ' 
— of finding some One Thing out of whose 
qualities or properties all is that is. We have 
not done this, quite. By means of theoretical 
speculations based upon scientific experimenta- 
tions, we have shown how it may be true that all 
bodily existence is but the manifestation of units 
of negative electricity, lying embossed in an 
omnipresent ether of which these units are, 
probably, a conditional part. Matter has dis- 
appeared as a fundamental existence, or at any 
rate it is explained as a manifestation of elec- 
tricity. Mass, a supposedly indestructible thing, 
has disappeared with matter, and comes into ex- 
istence only as the negative electron, assuming 



Spirit and Matter 83 

motion, carries with it a bound portion of the ether 
in which it is bathed; and furthermore this mass 
which we thought so invariable depends solely 
upon the velocity with which the negative unit 
moves. 

"Our negative unit on receiving mass becomes 
a ' corpuscle' endowed with the primary qualities 
of matter, superimposed upon those of electricity. 
Corpuscles congregating into groups or various 
configurations constitute essentially the atoms of 
the chemical elements, locking up in these con- 
figurations superterrific energies and leaving 'a 
slight residual effect/ as chemical affinity or 
gravitation, with which we attempt to carry on 
the work of the world. These atoms, congregating 
in their turn as nebulae, and under the slight 
residual force of gravitation, condense into blazing 
suns. The suns decay in their temperature, and 
become ever more and more complex in their 
constitution as the atoms lock themselves into 
multiple forms. We then see these multiple 
atoms developing into the molecules of matter to 
form a world. We see the molecules growing 
ever more and more complex as the world grows 
colder, until we attain to organic compounds. 
We see these organic compounds united to form 
living beings, and we see these living beings de- 
veloping into countless forms, and, after seons 
of time, evolving into a dominant race which is us. 

"Of this attempt on the part of science to unify 
physical nature, the Hon. A. J. Balfour said in 
his Presidential address, before the British Asso- 
ciation: 'It excited feelings of the most acute 



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intellectual gratification. The satisfaction it gives 
is almost aesthetic in its intensity and quality. 
We feel the same melancholy past, we first see far 
below us the sudden glory of plain, river, and 
mountain.' 

"There is no criterion of absolute truth; there 
is no way of attaining to absolute truth, and we 
may as well acknowledge it. Should we therefore 
abandon the world riddle? Assuredly not. If 
we may never know a system to be true, we may 
believe it to be true. We may not have a knowledge 
of truth, but we may have a recognition of it. This 
recognition of truth depends, seemingly, on 
psychological considerations. If we have a beau- 
tiful building of systematized perceptions and 
conceptions, all dovetailing into one another, 
into the complete expression of an idea, we say 
the idea is true, because we see in it a perfect 
harmony, and this harmony pleases us and gives 
us a feeling of the recognition of truth. But the 
statement: 'This scheme is faultless in its con- 
sistency, and is therefore true/ is not logic; it 
is an act of pure faith. This unlogical faith 
which permeates science is very plain to see. 
Why should there be a system at all? Why should 
we feel that the Universe must be a perfect har- 
mony? Why should there not be seventy or 
eighty elements as well as only one? The answer 
is not forthcoming. It is a matter of faith bred 
in the bone of science. The little systems have 
their day, one after another, and cease to be. 
{But out of each system rises another, not as a 
revolution, but as an evolution.) 



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"The second system takes in all the * facts' 
of the first, accounts for all its inconsistencies, and 
embraces a wider scope. The third bears a similar 
relation to the second. Hence the evolution of 
systems is like a series of concentric, ever-widen- 
ing circles, covering ever larger areas of knowledge, 
and we believe purely as an act of Faith, and not 
at all of Logic, that the Universe is eventually 
determinable, thousands of years hence, into 
some one system which will account for every- 
thing and which will be the truth. 

"Meanwhile, this system of the New Knowl- 
edge, as we have attempted to outline it, is simply 
the outermost circle covering the greatest area of 
knowledge, and while its diameter is by no means 
infinite, it is the truest expression of the Truth at- 
tainable at this time, and as such is vastly useful. 

"Its utility in the evolution of knowledge is its 
sole apology for existence. Outside, however, 
of the theoretical interpretations of the new knowl- 
edge, there is a great body of newly perceived 
phenomena, called 'facts. 5 These 'facts/ inde- 
pendent of any theory connecting them, are also 
useful, so useful indeed that they will never be 
forgotten nor neglected so long as thought en- 
dures. Such are the ascertained facts and 
measurements of radio-activity, of new physics, 
the new chemistry, and the new astronomy — 
new pawns on the chessboards of man's struggle 
with nature and forever useful. 

"In addition there are certain new conceptions 
which while we can hardly say they are ascertained 
truths, shadow themselves as such. 



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"It is in the realization of two of these con- 
ceptions that during the next two hundred years 
the great work of the world will lie. 

"The first is the transmutability of the elements. 
Our reason bids us assent to its actual accomplish- 
ment, not with our aid, but in spite of it, in the 
case of the heavy elements. Our hopes lead us to 
feel that we may aspire to accomplish it for 
ourselves. In this connection Sir William Ram- 
say's speech at the Waldorf Astoria banquet is 
significant. 

"' Experiments are in progress with radio-active 
substances the results of which seem to show that 
we are on the brink of discovering the synthesis 
of atoms. This may lead us to the discovery of 
the ordinary elements/ A record of his experi- 
ment certainly confirms his hopeful attitude. 
Having accomplished atomic synthesis, we shall 
then strive to subordinate it to our needs, and 
having done this, we shall be well on our way to 
a transformed world. 

"Still another conception of the new knowledge 
is that of the vast stores of interelemental energy 
of which we live but on the fringe — a store so 
great that every breath we draw has within it 
sufficient power to drive the workshops of the 
world. Man will tap this energy some day some- 
how. 

"Of course, we do not know this, but we believe 
it. We believe it because we believe that Creation 
means something and means it intensely. We 
have not come up through Paleozoic, Mesozoic, 
and Cenozoic times for nothing. If all the an- 



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guish of all the lives of all past were to find one 
common vocal expression, what a cry to God there 
would be. Are we to believe that the butcher, 
the baker, and the candlestick-maker, to say- 
nothing of the great masses of men beneath them, 
are worth all that? No. It is all a promise. 
There must be a result in the world that is worth 
all the world. It has been impossible in the past 
to even glimpse this result. It was an action of 
pure faith to believe in it. But now that we know, 
or think we know, of this infinite Treasure House 
of interelemental energy lying latent for the hand 
of future man to use, it is neither difficult nor 
fanatical to believe that 'beings who are now 
latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins 
shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a 
footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their 
hands amidst the stars.' 

"Meanwhile, we feel that we know this: 'In 
the beginning God Created,' and in the midst 
of his Creation, He set down man with a little 
spark of the Godhead in him to make him strive to 
know, — and in striving, to grow and progress to 
some great worthy, unknown end in the world. 
He gave him hands to do, a will to drive, and 
senses to apprehend, — just a working equipment: 
and so he has won his way, — so far, out of the 
horrible conditions of pre-history. 

"To Know is to work and to do, — and a new 
thing Done is forever a rung in the ladder by 
which man climbs, — necessary and good for all 
generations, until the summit is attained and the 
ladder can be cast aside." 



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I extend thanks to Professor Wm. James, I. W. 
Heysinger, M.D., Robert Kennedy Duncan, and 
George Burman Foster for the great help I have 
found in their books and recommend them to all 
those who are interested in the Science and Re- 
ligion of to-day. 

This lesson is a very deep one, and requires 
many readings and much meditation. It is one 
that each student and teacher should read at 
least once every month. By doing this they will 
find that at each reading they will realize some- 
thing not understood before. This is true of all 
studies along these lines; in fact it is a great 
"Truth" that we read from every book; and see 
in every picture just what we are capable of under- 
standing or seeing at that moment. Thus we realize 
that we continually grow in consciousness. 

Treatment for this Lesson 

/ am Spirit, in my Soul and Body — The 
perfect Divine Life or God, the All Good. The 
Spirit of my Soul is vibrating at a more rapid speed, 
is therefore of finer quality. The greater includes 
the lesser, the finer should control the coarser, 
the higher the lower. My "Sour' is demonstrat- 
ing now its mastery over my Body. The "Great 
Spirit" of the "whole" is flowing into my indi- 
vidual soul through all the organs of my body, 
purifying and strengthening them. All is Good 
or God and God is love. Meditate on this state- 
ment morning and night, and as often as possible 
through the day. 




Lesson VIII 




THE CHRIST OR SPIRITUAL 
CONSCIOUSNESS 

|pIP====SiS HE word "consciousness" is one 
Jj^ ^^^^^ ljjj into which a new and much more 
inclusive meaning is being recog- 
nized by all students of psy- 
chology as well as of metaphysics. 
Webster gives the definition as, 
"Having the faculty of knowing" 
-"To be aware of" — "Cognizant" — "etc." 

There are, of course, different kinds and degrees 
of consciousness. Away back through the ages, 
scientists tell us, there was an animal "man" 
born with a higher consciousness of "self" than 
had been given to any living creature up to 
that time. This new animal called "man" was 
the first one who could say, "7 am different from 
other forms which I see" — This was the first 
Birth into "Simple Self -consciousness," and from 
that time this "man creature," has, through 
great strife, struggles, and suffering, with here 
and there a little gleam of joy, and light, to 
urge him on, evolved to the man of to-day who 

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is bringing into manifestation miracles along all 
lines. While this evolution has been going on 
according to law, from lower to higher, there has 
been evolved, at different times during the ages, 
one at a time, a Soul, different from others, "ahead 
of its type," as it were; one with a larger "vision" 
— a deeper "knowing," or as we now express it a 
"greater consciousness." Among these were 
Buddha, Zoroaster, Laotzse, Confucius, Jesus, 
called the Christ, and all later Prophets, Poets, 
Inventors; those born with a vision or a special 
message in advance of the majority of their 
age. 

When we read the history of these Souls we 
find that at some time in their lives each had a 
"Sudden Illumination," a "Rebirth" as it has 
been named by some; a time when there came a 
larger "Knowing," through some kind of a vision, 
and "understanding," after which the world, 
their life, everything and every experience, was 
different, larger; and of course from that time 
on, during their lives these men were leaders. 
(Many illustrations of these prophets and seers are 
given in "Cosmic Consciousness," by Dr. Richard 
Maurice Bucke, in "Varieties of Religious 
Experiences," by the late Wm. James, and in 
"Cosmic Consciousness," by Ali Nomad.) 

During the last comparatively few years, science 
and religion have from different angles reached 
the same conclusion in regard to the Universe, 
i.e., — that it is one of absolute dependable law 
and order, the "Life Essence" (by whatever name 
we may call it, the "Ether of Space" the "First 



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Cause," "The Force of Life/' "The Eternal 
Energy," "The All Good or God") of which is 
one and the same. This life manifesting in almost 
innumerable forms with different degrees of 
consciousness. 

From the fact that the world leaders in science 
and religion have reached this conclusion as to 
the "Unity" of the Universe, comes the realiza- 
tion that many souls have to-day been born into 
a higher and more inclusive consciousness. As 
is always the case, and necessarily so, the material 
scientists have their name for this, and after call- 
ing the Universe a "Cosmos" they explain the 
understanding of this as "Cosmic Consciousness," 
while Religionists, calling the one Life of the 
Universe "Spirit," name this new realization 
"Spiritual Consciousness." Many Religionists of 
the Western World call it the "Christ Conscious- 
ness," and it is that which Jesus the Christ had, 
and manifested to such a wonderful extent that 
many people of his time and later have believed 
that he was All of God, unique, unattainable. 
The understanding of Cosmic or Spiritual Con- 
sciousness explains Him, and all these wonderful 
souls, and does so by referring to his own words. 
While simple or Self Consciousness is experienced 
through the senses, Cosmic Consciousness is only 
known through our inner sense, a something we 
might call a "feel within." Leaders along these 
lines of thought are calling it the "Sixth Sense," 
or "Fourth Dimension," and it must of course 
come through a heretofore undeveloped sense, 
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we shall by recognizing and experimenting with 
it, learn its laws and use them more practically. 

This "inner knowing," has been called by 
Scientists the psychic sense" — "Intuition," etc., 
and works to a great extent through the subcon- 
scious side of the Mind, and through this sense has 
been and always will be all religious or spiritual 
experience. 

After studying the evolution of Self Conscious- 
ness and the New Birth into Cosmic or Spiritual 
Consciousness, we realize that continual evolution 
must come through the study and understanding 
of the Laws of the latter, or "Spiritual Science." 
This Science being that of the life of the Universe, 
includes all; so-called Material Science, all Re- 
ligion, everything. It is absolutely "inclusive" 
What a vast and wonderfully interesting study 
we have before us! There is no environment nor 
experience in which it cannot be used and by 
learning its laws, because they are the laws of 
the "All Good," or "God," "Spirit," we may 
demonstrate harmony along all lines. 

The first step towards this wonderful and im- 
measurable study is the realization of the "Unity" 
of the Universe. When we stand on a hill or a 
mountain looking out over a beautiful scene there 
wells up within us that consciousness of the One 
Life, pulsing, beating through it all and we feel a 
"part of it all"; we have the same "feel" when 
looking out over a large body of water, or at the 
wonderful Falls of Niagara, or at night at the 
stars, trying to realize the unthinkable distance 
between them and ourselves, the perfect "Law" 



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which controls the planets, which look so tiny to 
us. As we go along and meditate on this "Unity " 
we will grow in the consciousness of it, and then, 
by consciously experimenting in our daily lives, 
we will demonstrate more and more of "Truth" 
to ourselves and others. 

The attitude of the past toward Religion has 
been too much theory and very little practice — 
People have dwelt upon the letter of the law and 
have overlooked the Spirit or Real Life back of 
it, thereby denying in practice the very Truths 
which Jesus, the one whom they worship as "The 
Christ," came to teach and tried so faithfully to 
instil into his Disciples and others. 

Religion has been treated as though it were 
something "outside" of Life, to be put on with 
our Sunday clothes and used while in church, and 
then put aside until the next Sunday. The atti- 
tude of most religionists toward Sunday has been 
contrary to the teaching and example of Jesus. 
When asked regarding this he said, "The Sabbath 
was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 

In the first place, specializing upon one day as 
"God's day" has hidden the Truth that all days 
are "God's days," and that we need this "Great 
Presence" of the "All Good" every day and hour 
of our lives in all of our demonstration. Then if 
we set aside one day out of seven in which to 
specialize, to honor, worship, revere, meditate, 
and give thanks to the Great, Wonderful, God of 
Love, how shall we know what kind of demon- 
stration will be most acceptable to God, the All 
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read carefully the statements said to have been 
made by Him. If we can believe anything related 
in the New Testament, we can certainly believe 
the general attitude toward God which he taught. 
He spoke of God as a "Loving Father" — one 
who was always ready and anxious to forgive 
His children for mistakes. He told his hearers 
not to "beg nor plead for mercy," nor to make, 
"long prayers, using many words," but said, 
"Behold ye have all these things before ye ask 
them," trying to explain to them that the same 
God, Father, Holy Spirit was within each one and 
that all they had to do was to recognize "it," and 
thus call "it" forth into manifestation. If you 
will read "The Sermon on the Mount," and all 
other words of Jesus, with this understanding 
you will get a much fuller realization of the "Con- 
sciousness" he had, and which He said we might 
have, if we would believe his words and act accord- 
ingly. 

With this conception of God, we know at once 
that he wants us to be "Happy"! The Ideal of 
the Universe is Harmony! When we are "happy," 
we are expressing most of the God Life, which we 
really are. This is the "Answer," and it is an 
individual one always. No one can judge happiness 
for another, therefore each one must find his or 
her own path to this goal, and lovingly "let go" 
of every other soul to do the same. 

This being true, on Sunday or the Sabbath, 
the Seventh day, set aside (and there is a practical 
scientific necessity for this) for rest, change of 
occupation, " re-creation/ 9 and through these, time 



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to think and express more of the God Life, each 
Soul should be free to decide every separate Sunday 
the way in which he or she can most fully relax, 
rest, in fact realize the "God of Love, and Life of 
All," thereby becoming "re-created and inspired, 
in order to demonstrate Harmony or Happiness. " 
In other words, when we are happy we are ex- 
pressing God's laws most fully; therefore our 
demonstration is right for us without regard to the 
opinion of any other soul, or the conventions, 
laws, or theological framework of any denomi- 
nation, in this or any other country, for we cannot 
be happy if we are really interfering with the 
rights of another. 

Children if reared with this idea will grow up 
loving Sunday and wishing it to come, instead of 
(as was my own experience and that of the ma- 
jority of children in the past) dreading it and hating 
the day, because we could not do anything we 
wished to. It was "wrong" to play with toys, 
to go driving, to boat ride (and all these were 
questions largely of locality), and the reason 
given was because it was "God's day." What a 
denial of the "God" of the "Christ Conscious- 
ness"! — He who said, "Suffer little children to 
come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of 
Heaven" (on earth as well as in Life Hereafter). 
What demonstration could be more pleasing to 
the "God" of whom we can have a conception to- 
day than a "happy little child"? And read what 
Jesus said should be the consequence to one who 
offended the "least of these" and yet in this sup- 
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many adult men and women asleep, tied to a 
conception of God and Jesus which belongs to the 
childish, even animal stage of centuries past, 
dwell upon the outgrown Theological Technique 
which, while the best they knew or were able to 
conceive of in those days, with their belief in a 
God of fear, wrath, and vengeance, is certainly 
out of date to-day, and cannot be retained. We 
hold now a higher conception, our birth into the 
Christ Consciousness. 

We still hear (and I often think how immeasur- 
able, infinite, God's patience is) seemingly intelli- 
gent, thoughtful, supposedly educated men and 
women discussing this question of "keeping the 
Sabbath Day" — One thinks (and I was one of 
these only a few years ago) "it is perfectly right 
to drive a horse on that day, but wrong to go boat 
riding; another that motoring, using a chauffeur 
is right, but wrong to play golf, etc., etc., etc., 
trying to settle all these details for all times, to 
arrange a religion or plan of life which can be 
used by all, with established definitions or for- 
mulas for right and wrong which can be committed 
to memory and used as we would the multiplica- 
tion table, which is of course impossible "For 
there is nothing (as Dr. Minot Savage says) we 
can think of that would not under some conditions 
be right to do, and under some conditions be 
wrong." 

What again would be more pleasing to God than 
a man, woman, or child expressing Happiness and 
Love in "Spirit," through a Healthy Body which 
is the Temple of the Soul or Spirit. And if we 



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stop to think and ask, seriously, surely the inner 
voice, and our reason, will tell us that any occupa- 
tion or recreation which helps us to be Happy and 
Healthy must be "right for us," whether it is 
playing golf, motoring, boat riding, going to 
church, or anything else we may choose, and that 
this is true on Sunday as well as any other day. 

Now that we are commencing to understand 
that negative thoughts of anger, irritation, adverse 
criticism, worry, fear, etc., affect our bodies and 
bring on diseases as well as make others uncom- 
fortable and unhappy, I trust that a greater num- 
ber of people will realize that it is a sin to allow 
ourselves to get into these conditions, and that 
this is also true on Sunday as well as any other day. 
Then we shall all devote more time and attention 
to keeping our thought atmosphere right, than as 
to whether it is right to "dance" or "play cards," 
or "go to the theater" on a week day or play 
golf, motor, etc., on Sunday; and will more and 
more get the realization that everything is right 
in its time and place, in moderation. As Lawrence 
Hope says — 

" Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin, 
The Gods they serve, the vintage that they drink, 
Nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, 
But by the quality of Thoughts they think" 

Some one has said that after every "Thou shalt 
not" there should be a "why?" and each indi- 
vidual must find his or her answer in every case. 
We must get away from the little conception of 
Life up into the Higher Christ or Cosmic Con- 
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principles, adjust our religion {which is our idea 
of God) to this Twentieth Century of aeroplanes, 
limousine automobiles, electricity, and the pos- 
sibilities of radium; only by so doing can we be 
properly equipped to live our own lives in this 
new age, to say nothing of attempting to lead 
and inspire the young of this generation who 
are being born into this Consciousness, at their 
physical birth. 

After I had written this I read "Child and Coun- 
try,' 5 by Will Levington Comfort, and must quote 
the following: — "The greatest wrong that has 
been done by past generations is the detachment 
of work and religion, setting off the Sabbath as 
the day for expressing the Angel in us and mark- 
ing six days for the progress of the animal." I 
heartily recommend this book, which I consider 
one of the best of the day. "Midstream," the 
book written before this by the same author, is 
also very fine. 

When we get even a gleam of this higher realiza- 
tion we find that we can and should "live the 
presence of god," not one day out of seven but 
every day, every hour, every moment. There is a 
little booklet printed giving the soul history of a 
monk who was called "Brother Lawrence." His 
work in the monastery was the most menial; 
washing dishes, scrubbing, etc., yet, right there, 
in that environment, he was born into the Christ 
Consciousness, through an "Illumination," and 
learned "The Practice of the Presence of God." 
For the Technique to be used in order to acquire 
this, I refer you to Lesson Five on "Concen- 



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tration and Meditation.' ' Every morning upon 
awakening turn your thoughts to the God of the 
Universe; Thank Him for the rest which the Body 
has had and the re-creation therefrom; take some 
favorite quotation, or bit of poetry, thought, or 
affirmation, such as "I am a part of the Divine 
Life, the All Good," "I am Love, I radiate Love!" 
Throughout this coming day I shall endeavor 
to realize more and more of God's Presence in 
everything, and to express more and more of it my- 
self — I feel this Presence: It is a warm, loving, 
essence in which I live and move and have my 
being. It is within and without, everywhere, in 
fact it is "All there is"; by and through it I am 
protected: I have a greater consciousness of "it" 
than ever before. All my work and every ex- 
perience of the day shall be Spiritualized by the 
realization of God's Presence. Only that which 
my soul attracts can come to me, and by con- 
sciously using this wonderful "Love Presence" 
even that which may seem at first to be in- 
harmonious may be dissolved, assimilated, and 
brought into Harmony: which is the Law of god 
realized and expressed, and should therefore 
be the answer to all our problems. 

ALL IS GOOD OR "GOD" AND "GOD IS LOVE." 




Lesson IX 




LOVE, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 

N starting to write this lesson I 
feel like the boy who when asked 
to write a composition took for 
his subject, "The Universe" and 
then found he was limited to one 
thousand words. 

Following the sequence I have 
suggested in the former lessons, I will take my 
"Ideal," my "Vision," from "The Princess" by 
Alfred Tennyson and would ask all who read this 
to get this beautiful poem and read it. I quote 
his Ideal of Man and Woman because he expresses 
so beautifully my own : — 

Blame not Thyself too much, I said, nor blame 
Too much the sons of men and barbarous Laws: 
These were the rough ways of the world till now. 
Henceforth Thou hast a helper, me, that know 
The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink 
Together dwarf 'd or godlike, bond or free: 
For she that out of Lethe scales with man 
The shining steps of Nature, shares with man 
His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal; 
Stays all the fair young planet in her hands — 
If she be small, slight-natured, miserable, 

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How shall men grow? But work no more alone! 

Our place is much: as far as in us lies, 

We two will serve them both in aiding her — 

Will clear away the parasitic forms 

That seem to keep her up, but drag her down — 

Will leave her space to burgeon out of all 

Within her — let her make herself her own, 

To give or keep, to live and learn and be 

All that not harms distinctive Womanhood; 

For woman is not undeveloped man 

But diverse: could we make her as the man 

Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, 

Not like to like, but like in difference. 

Yet in the long years liker must they grow; 

The man be more of woman, she of man; 

He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 

Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 

She mental breadth, nor fail in childhood care, 

Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; 

Till at the last she set herself to man 

Like perfect music unto noble words : 

And so these twain upon the skirts of Time, 

Sit side by side, full summ'd in all their powers, 

Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-Be, 

Self-reverent each, and reverencing each, 

Distinct in individualities, 

But like each other ev'n as those who love. 

Then comes the Statelier Eden back to men; 

There reign the world's great bridal, chaste and calm; 

Then springs the crowning race of human-kind, 

May these things be! 

Sighing she spoke, "I fear 
They will not." 

Dear, but let us type them now 
In our own lives, and this proud watchword rest 
Of equal; seeing either sex alone 
Is half itself, and in true marriage lies 
Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils 
Defect in each, and always thought in thought, 
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The single pure and perfect animal, 

The two-ceird heart, beating with one full stroke, 

Life. 

And again sighing she spoke: "A dream 
That once was mine! What woman taught you this?" 
Alone, I said, from earlier than I know 
Immersed in rich f oreshadowings of the world 
I loved the woman; he that does not, lives 
A drowning life, besotted in sweet self, 
Or pines in sad experience worse than death, 
Or keeps his wing'd affections dipt with crime: 
Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one 
Not learned, save in gracious household ways. 
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, 
No angel, but a dearer being, all dipt 
In angel instincts, breathing Paradise, 
Interpreter between the Gods and men, 
Who look'd all native to her place, and yet 
On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere 
Too gross to tread, and all male minds perforce 
Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved 
And girdled her with music. Happy he 
With such a mother! faith in womankind 
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high 
Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. 

What a wonderful Ideal for man and woman, 
and through these of true marriage; what a beauti- 
ful tribute to a Mother! 

After studying the laws of Spiritual Science for 
about three years, reading books, taking lessons, 
hearing lectures, meditating, teaching, and treat- 
ing, I came to this conclusion — that back of 
every case of nervous inharmony, by whatever 
name it might be called, and back of all so-called 
"diseases of women," is some kind of inharmony 
in their sex or family life. I have made this state- 



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ment to several physicians and science Healers, 
and they have agreed with me from a much wider 
experience than mine. 

Back of all this, as the first cause, is a wrong 
attitude toward sex, caused by ignorance. 

Scientists who have delved into the life of the 
Universe find everywhere the two demonstrations, 
masculine and feminine. This combination forms 
the Universe, It is this attraction expressing that 
controls the "ALL" and yet, poor blind men and 
women in their ignorance have condemned it, 
because through sex came inharmony, and they 
were not able to understand that it was not the 
thing itself, but the wrong use of it that caused the 
disaster. 

In fact only within the last comparatively few 
years have a few men and women awakened, and 
commenced the study of these laws, and by so doing 
found the reasons for much of the inharmony 
along these lines. As is always the case, first 
came the Poets, Prophets, the Transcendentalists 
and Dramatists, with their necessary tearing down 
of the old, and Ideals for the new regime. Among 
the greatest of these are Emerson, Thoreau, Walt 
Whitman, Tennyson, Mr. and Mrs. Browning, 
Shelley, Ibsen, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Bernard 
Shaw, Ellen Key, Olive Schreiner, Edward Car- 
penter, Havelock Ellis, Edward Howard Griggs, 
and Charles Zeublin. Each of these and many 
others has in his or her individual way brought to 
light the flaws in the old and pointed to possi- 
bilities for the new dispensation, in regard to the 
strongest and most important laws of the Universe 



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and the conventions for controlling them in order 
that this world shall demonstrate greater harmony. 

Sex attraction is the first and most powerful 
expression of "Love/' which is God therefore it 
must be Good, always, in its self, for it is God ex- 
pressing. Because it is the most Powerful Force 
in the Universe, it is capable of demonstrating the 
greatest, most complete harmony (or Heaven State) 
if used according to its own laws, and of creating 
the deepest, blackest, and most destructive of 
inharmonies, (or Hell States), if used (no matter 
how innocently through ignorance) outside or in 
opposition to its own laws. 

Man (meaning man and woman) has, with this 
Law as with all others experimented, worked, 
thought, lived, suffered, rotated between Heaven 
and Hell, trying with all the light he could get at 
a given time to solve this problem. He has made 
many mistakes, blundered along, but we must 
not condemn, for he has always done (and is still 
doing) the best he could with the Light he had. 
We of this century, with our knowledge through 
Science, Religion, and miraculous advance along 
all lines, must rouse ourselves from our "Earth 
Drowse' 5 and be in reality "Truth Seekers"; 
then, as Jesus the Great Master said, "we shall 
find: 9 

We have said that the "Love" of two beings, 
man and woman (each being in reality only half) 
is the Highest Ideal of the expression of Love of 
God; after this comes "The Desire to repro- 
duce its kind," then "Motherhood" and "Father- 
hood," then extending out, in circles one after 



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another, those souls whom we attract, until we 
have a gleam of "The Brotherhood of Man" 
which is the "birth" into Cosmic Consciousness. 
After this, of course, each soul unfolds more and 
more, gaining through experience, thought, medi- 
tation, all the avenues open to it, a fuller and 
broader understanding of "Life" (Lawrence 
Hope has written a wonderful poem, which ex- 
presses the "New Thought," and higher Ideal 
of Love. The title is, "Love is the Symbol of a 
Sacred Thing"; it is in her book "Stars of the 
Desert.") 

Our capacity for loving "God" is governed by 
our capacity for loving some human being, for as 
Jesus said, "If ye love not your brother whom 
you have seen, how can you Love God whom you 
have not seen?" 

My ideal of a "Great Love" is first an attrac- 
tion, which I would call "Psychic," of the souls 
of a man and woman, then, through acquaintance, 
a Friendship, the exchanging of ideas on the 
deepest things in life, God, Love, Marriage, etc., 
with the result that in general in regard to the 
most important vital questions there is an agree- 
ment; a similarity of tastes in regard to recreations 
and amusements, a harmonious mental arrival, 
so that it would be possible for each to under- 
stand the other, and then an unselfish Love, each 
feeling that to make the other "happy," to serve 
the other, to be to that one all that he or she most 
desires in life, is their greatest happiness: When 
each one has this love, surely it is a real Marriage, 
and may safely be followed by a civil contract in 



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order that children and property be arranged for. 
And the statutes should include a law that would 
quickly free the couple from civil contract if the 
real marriage should at any time prove to be 
ended. 

With such a love the sex life would be a beauti- 
ful and sacred experience, the Highest conceivable 
in this life, and while such a love continued there 
would be no necessity for "laws to bind the two 
souls," nor to protect either from any other soul. 

But even when this Love is realized we should 
remember that it has to be retained; we do not 
expect to live without food for our physical body; 
why should we think that Love once won can 
continue to exist and thrive without nourishment? 

This mistaken attitude is at the root of the 
majority of unhappy marriages and consequently 
of ill health of thousands of women and many men. 
Love must not only be "won" but fed and nur- 
tured tenderly, in order that it may continue and 
increase, for nothing stands still; it either grows or 
dies, changes form. As expression is the first law of 
God, and God is Love, we understand that in order 
to grow, Love must express and the fuller the ex- 
pression the greater will be the return, for, with 
this as with everything, we receive as we give. We 
must study expression: Try to discover new and 
ever more ways in which to express our love, using 
words, actions, studying the temperament, each 
one of the other, trying to give happiness or pleas- 
ure in the way they want it, not in our own way. 

If the mothers and fathers of to-day would take 
this attitude toward each other, live it and teach 



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their boys as well as girls these ideals of Love and 
Life, we would have the "Super Man and Woman" 
and the new "Eden" of which Tennyson speaks 
in the next generation. 

Some writer has said that every soul must see 
"God walk beside it in human form," and this is 
true. 

Love itself then is always and ever Good — when 
it seems to bring inharmony we must know that 
there is something wrong about the machinery, 
or our use of it, just as when we hear of an explo- 
sion from natural gas, or fire from electrical wires, 
etc., etc., we know the laws of those demonstra- 
tions have been disobeyed in some way, and in 
order to avoid those catastrophes we start people 
to investigate, try to find out the cause; in what 
way they were misused, or abused; in order that 
we may avoid another disastrous manifestation. 

We should follow the same system with regard 
to all the various and complex inharmonies 
caused by the misuse and abuse of this Great 
Wonderful Universal Power of "Love." From 
the fact that a larger number of thinking men 
and women are working on these problems to-day 
we may expect great advancement, Higher Ideals 
Realized, and better systems in the not distant 
future. 

Each case of "Love" between man and woman 
is an individual one, and must be treated so by 
the two individuals: considering all the compli- 
cations. " In the beginning of Creation God made 
them male and female. For this cause shall a man 
leave his Father and Mother and cleave to his 



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wife and they twain shall be made one flesh; so 
then they are no more twain but one flesh; what 
then God hath joined together let not man put 
asunder." (Mark 10: 6-9.) 

This is the real marriage, a Great Love between 
a man and a woman, and it is the only reason for a 
civil law or contract of any kind following. These 
of course differ in various localities. Bernard 
Shaw says that he receives thousands of letters, 
asking "if he believes in marriage?" He says 
he asks, "What kind of marriage do you mean?" 
For there are many varieties in different countries. 
Marriage being a "Spiritual Union' 9 between two 
souls, God joined, cannot by man be put asunder, 
except in appearance, but only by one or both of 
the two souls. And when this is done neither 
man nor angels can preserve the real marriage. 
Believing this, I feel that the Churches (both 
Catholic and Protestant) have made several grave 
mistakes in their treatment of love and marriage. 
The first one, the supposition that for each man 
and woman there is but one love in this life and 
that once having found this (or believing they 
have) they must continue to live together in the 
married state according to the civil law of the 
particular locality in which they happen to live 
until "death does them part." This attitude, 
taken by the Churches and naturally followed by 
conventional Society, has brought about the con- 
ditions existing to-day. The fact that the Church, 
the Civil Law, and Public Opinion cling to the 
outer framework, the letter of the law, and set it 
up in advance of the real spirit of marriage has 



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emphasized the unreal outer form, losing sight of 
the real or Spirit. 

Edward Howard Griggs said several years ago, 
in a lecture on "The Ethics of Personal Life": 
"Many people are to-day very much frightened 
by the statistics on divorce; the fact that the 
number is increasing rapidly; and they fear the 
world is getting very 'bad/ the moral standard 
weakening, etc. They are entirely wrong in 
their diagnosis; it is because the world is getting 
better, more Spiritual, a greater number of men 
and women are realizing that A Great Love is the 
only excuse for a man and a woman being 
legally tied and when for any reason that love has 
changed, the greatest sin to the souls of both is to 
continue the married or sexual relation." 

This is the higher, more spiritual conception 
of the Prophets, Poets, Scientists, and advanced 
Religionists of to-day, names of whom I have given 
earlier in this lesson, and I trust every one who 
reads this will get the works of Ellen Key, Olive 
Schreiner, Edward Carpenter, and Havelock Ellis 
and learn from them the great truths known 
to-day along these lines, for through the knowl- 
edge of these is coming great advancement, which 
will bring forth a Wonderful Spiritual Race, the 
"Super-Man and Woman." 

The very attitude of the narrow conventional 
(probably middle-class majority) toward these 
"New Thoughts" is a terrible criticism on the 
existing conditions. They say, "But if you make 
divorce easy, aren't you afraid that Home Life 
will be broken up, etc., etc.?" Surely they put a 



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low estimate on the number of "Real Marriages" 
now realized, do they not? Let us be honest; 
if there are so many cases where one or both of 
those living in the married state according to law 
are doing so for other reasons than love, would it 
not be much better for all the individuals and the 
race, to remove the dead skeleton, the Technique 
of the law, and free the Real Spirit in order that 
it may live its best life, which is an expression of 
God the all Good? / still believe that, notwith- 
standing the many mismated couples, and where 
one or the other has outgrown the supposed 
mate, or for different reasons they do not love 
each other as they should in order to continue 
the marriage relations, that there are many men 
and women living in this world who have found 
their mates who still love with the real Spiritual 
attachment, which is the most beautiful realiza- 
tion in this life, and who, if all the marriage laws 
were declared void to-day, would from choice 
remain together. In other words being "God 
joined" they could not be "put asunder." 

Then comes the question — what of the chil- 
dren? My answer is: The birthright of every 
child is to be born into this world as the result of a 
perfect Union of two Souls, a Great love. The 
question as to whether these souls are civilly or 
lawfully married has nothing to do with the real 
love, nor the child. (This is another place where 
the churches are responsible for a criminal atti- 
tude toward an innocent child! an expression 
of God according to His Own Law: and they have 
in their pitiful mistaken ignorance put their "man- 



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made laws" ahead of this Strongest law of God's 
Universe, thereby casting a slur on Motherhood 
and condemning thousands of God's children 
to suffering and heartache! From this attitude 
of churches and Religionists of the past — which 
they, no doubt, established hoping through 
"Fear" to prevent sexual relations between un- 
married people and the birth of children to them, — 
has come such a strong public sentiment in regard 
to this that one can hardly look at a newspaper 
to-day without reading of a murder or suicide 
which had as its cause some complication of this 
kind, showing that many poor souls have a greater 
Fear of man's judgment and "Public Opinion" 
than of that of the God of Universe! Truly we 
can only refrain from condemning those who 
are responsible for this attitude by saying, "Lord, 
forgive them, they knew not what they did." 

The majority of Americans (both men and 
women) live along in a self-satisfied attitude, 
thinking and talking of "our wonderful republic," 
but are really ignorant of the Laws and conditions 
of this wonderful country and of how far behind 
it is in many ways. For instance, in several 
countries all children are legitimatized, as soon as 
born, and if the parents cannot take care of them 
they are the property of the State, and are cared 
for and educated by it. Yet our America, a 
so-called "Christian Country," has no such law! 
A child from out side of "wed-Zoc&" (using the 
ancient term) is outside the law; condemned for 
something over which it had no control and which 
occurred according to the strongest and most 



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beautiful law of the Universe, The Life Principle! 
I will say right here that my strongest reason 
for believing in suffrage for woman is that the laws 
affecting women and children may be changed 
and evolved by women, for surely they can better 
understand both, and this is surely a women's 
domain. Men are so busy, and naturally, making 
laws for the transaction of business, that they 
cannot study these conditions and make the best 
laws for them. Referring to the beautiful poem 
with which I began this lesson, I feel as Tennyson 
expresses it — "The woman's cause is man's," and 
again — "Let her make herself her own, to give 
or keep, to live and learn and be all that not 
harms distinctive womanhood; for woman is not 
undeveloped man, but diverse." 

Both the masculine and feminine are needed 
in everything; nothing is complete without both, 
and there is no necessity for one interfering with 
the other; in fact when this appears there is some- 
thing wrong with the system. They should be 
always side by side, working together for the good 
of all. 

Now as to the environment of the child, — just 
because the atmosphere surrounding two souls 
that are really united in A Great Love (whether 
they live in one room, or in a palace) is the most 
complete demonstration of the "Heaven State" 
that we can vision, the atmosphere of the reverse 
condition is oftentimes the Blackest Hell of our 
imagination! I can think of no more unhealthy 
soil in which to rear a child than an unhappy 
"Home." Many men and women living to-day 



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can testify to this and I am sure will agree with 
me. Now that we know the action of the environ- 
ment and the objective mind on the Subconscious, 
through "Suggestion," we realize what a great 
effect on the character of man and woman the 
environment of childhood has. Therefore, "For 
the sake of the child," if the parents cannot 
manifest harmony let them separate, arranging 
in the best possible way for the child's greatest 
good. Of course each case is an individual one, 
to be studied and treated by the two souls whose 
attraction for each other put into action the 
greatest laws of the Universe, the results of which 
must be carefully considered. If both have a 
Spiritual Consciousness (and I have known cases 
where even one had this and the arrangements 
were made without inharmony) there is no reason 
why two that have lived together in marriage 
cannot separate without any bitterness or ill 
feeling — and in many cases be friends for life; 
in this way each keeping the respect and love of 
the children, if there should be any. In fact, 
this last will be accomplished much more easily 
if the parents are separated than when living 
together out of harmony. 

Another cause for much unhappiness through 
marriage is the present system, the lack of real 
and right preparation, which should be explanation 
of Life and its meaning by Mothers to their 
children, from babyhood up. Then when they 
are about to make the Great Experiment (for it 
is always that) they should prepare themselves 
by studying under the care of a trustworthy 



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physician, who is also a friend (if possible) the 
laws of their own body and those through which 
they may best, after marriage, preserve health 
and happiness and bring forth children with this 
birthright. Then, instead of an elaborate trous- 
seau, the round of gayeties, entertainments, etc., 
all of which exhaust the poor girl and annoy the 
man; finishing with a large wedding, scores of 
presents which will be a care and an expense for 
years to come and probably prove a great burden 
— instead of this pagan system, let us hold the 
higher ideal of a quiet, simple wedding at home, 
with only those who really love them present, no 
gifts but the Good Thoughts, wishes, and smiles 
of their real friends. 

When this sane system is inaugurated, as it 
must be before many years (the present one 
having reached its extreme, I believe), one great 
cause of ill health and unhappiness in married 
life will be removed. I have heard a number of 
times the criticism (of course from those who 
know nothing about it) that New Thought mental 
and spiritual scientists believe in "Free Love," 
have "no moral standard whatever." Of course 
we cannot answer such statements when they are 
made (as they usually are) in a crowd, at a social 
gathering — we can only say mentally, " Lord 
forgive them, they know not what they say." 
They do not understand their own words! Can 
love ever be anything except free? I can but 
give my own highest Truth — i.e., Returning 
to our conclusion that "love being the God 
Essence of Life, the sex attraction, masculine 



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and feminine, for each other, its first expression 
in the Universe, that attraction which sustains 
the order of everything from the planets in their 
courses to the tiniest insect and bit of proto- 
plasm or atom, must therefore always be Good 
in itself. How shall we explain our understand- 
ing of those who misuse and abuse this wonderful 
attraction? 

In regard to this, as every demonstration in 
life, my answer is "Evolution" of the soul, through 
some kind of "Reincarnation" (lives before this 
one as well as after); and of the Body through 
inherited tendencies and environment during 
this life as well as through the Soul's action on it. 
These are the only answers that explain to me the 
differences in the character, consciousness of souls 
in this world; the fact that we find even those of 
the same family, brothers and sisters, totally 
different in their consciousness, their thoughts, 
ideas, etc. The only way in which I can find 
Justice in this world and have a conception of a 
God that is All Good, loving, tender, wise, and 
just, is to believe that every soul must go through 
the same experiences sometime somewhere. Each 
incarnation, whether it be on this planet or some 
other, is like a "Room" at school, where there 
are several classes. Every soul attracts just the 
environment (by first selecting its Mother) 
which it needs in order to learn its next lesson. 
Every lesson has to be conquered, and, as one 
after another, this is accomplished the soul ceases 
to attract the problems through which these 
lessons were learned. It then attracts different 



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experiences; every person, book, picture, problem 
of any kind, which comes into our lives is attracted 
by the Soul or Real Self in order that we may 
learn through each a needed lesson. When we 
realize this we will, instead of being antagonistic 
toward experiences which seem unpleasant, face 
and study them, and try to quickly understand 
the lesson for which we have attracted them, 
work lovingly and faithfully to learn it, and then 
we will "overcome," and find that by so doing 
we have gained another step in Consciousness. 

Souls that are young upon entering this life 
come with a greater number of animal tendencies; 
therefore they use the sex attraction more nearly 
as animals do. The older Souls, having passed 
through a greater number of lives, thereby gain- 
ing through larger experiences, come into this 
one with a larger understanding and a realization 
that mind and spirit are higher than Body, and 
should control it; that while animal tendencies 
may still be in the Subconscious they should 
be controlled by the spirit or God within each 
soul. With this ideal have the older Souls of the 
past (with the best judgment they had at a given 
time) established codes of Ethics (or morality), 
rules for behavior. This of course was right and 
necessary, the wrong being that those who es- 
tablished these rules did not realize that the world 
was growing, and that one of the laws of the 
Universe is to change the form, constantly and 
forever, and that the Souls of later generations 
would need different codes. The Old Prophets 
and Seers, those evolved ahead of the majority, 



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were leading a very childish people! Young 
souls with only a gleam of even simple self con- 
sciousness. And in order to emphasize their 
ideas and establish rules for life they had to work 
upon the most susceptible emotion of which the 
majority were capable, i.e., Fear. And as their 
conception of God was at that time one of "Wrath'' 
they naturally Feared Him, as the something which 
they realized was greater than themselves. Under- 
standing this, as the Prophet had an inspiration 
that was new, he, realizing that it came from the 
higher power in some way, and wishing to give it 
to the masses, would do so by prefixing all such 
messages with — "And God said unto me." 
This would attract the attention and impress 
upon the people the "Truth" which the leader 
wished to teach them. 

When we look through the records of the past 
we realize that codes of rules for morality have 
changed as people grew and had a higher concep- 
tion of God and man, and that they must con- 
tinue to change for the same reason. Our 
standard must always be — "What is the best for 
the majority at a given time, considering every- 
thing?" There will always be the few who are 
in advance, have a greater consciousness, and who 
must be the "Leaders"; then the majority, the 
middle mass, and of those always a few laggers, 
who are the last to come up. We cannot, under- 
standing life in this way, hold any people or in- 
dividuals to our Standard of Morality — Each soul 
is responsible only as far as it knows. There are 
souls in this world who are unmoral as well as 



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those who are immoral. And quoting Sir Oliver 
Lodge, "Sin is a reversal to a lower, after knowl- 
edge of a higher." 

Jesus came into the world to bring a higher 
code of morality than the ones in vogue before 
his time, and his was a code of "Lave" and non- 
resistance; of the Spirit, instead of the letter of 
the Law, and one of his greatest and strongest 
commands was — "Judge not lest ye be Judged." 
The Spirit of the teachings of Jesus called the 
Christ is a practical working code of Ethics for 
the world to-day, and many souls are now realizing 
His Consciousness. 

With this attitude should each individual meet 
the "love" experiences of this life; without fear, 
realizing that the experience may be a beautiful 
one if it is accepted and treated in the right way; 
the question being always the same, does it bring 
Harmony, or discord, into the life? If the latter 
we should "stop, look and listen" to the "Inner 
Voice," and when we cannot accept or keep a love 
and arrange our lives so as to demonstrate har- 
mony, the answer must be to lovingly "let it go," 
keeping the beauty of it, and all that we have 
learned through it, but, like the "Nautilus," 
close up the room, moving on into a new and larger 
one, keeping all the past loves and friendships as 
beautiful experiences never to be forgotten, 
because from each have we learned something 
which has enlarged our consciousness and given 
us a better Understanding of Life. In this way 
we realize that we can never lose a love or friend- 
ship, even though we may find it best to separate 



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in this life for a time; sometime somewhere we 
shall meet again. As I said earlier in this lesson, 
we are just now in this country going through a 
transition stage in regard to our moral and con- 
ventional codes. Many men and women realize 
that we have outgrown the old conventions and 
have confused them with our morals, until we 
really do not know "which is which/' This 
condition makes life very complex! Many who 
are advanced in Thought and Consciousness 
want to live their higher ideals here and now — 
but the majority are still bound to the past, 
have not yet realized the Christ or Cosmic Con- 
sciousness, when they can think and reason for 
themselves, and they are either timid and fearful 
of the "New Thoughts" and ideas, or they are 
antagonistic toward them. Those in advance 
should always bear in mind that if they believe 
they have a new Truth, which is a higher and ad- 
vanced one, the best way to win others to believe 
in it is to live it. ("By their fruits ye shall know 
them.") There are, however, laws and conven- 
tions in regard to love, marriage, and the Social 
Life that while not perfect are still the best we 
now know for the majority, and no one who has 
really been born into the Cosmic or Christ Conscious- 
ness will tear down or violate these, unnecessarily. 
Freedom comes not in this way, for where any man 
or woman acts openly and aggressively in opposi- 
tion to the accepted conventions of the time, 
he or she attracts the negative attention of the 
majority, and is thereby fettered and bound. In 
other words, we can have freedom of thought, a 



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little freedom of speech, but when it comes to 
action we should remember that we must consider 
"The greatest good to the greatest number." 
We are all parts of a "perfect whole"; therefore 
we are attached to the whole and there is no 
possibility of entire individualism. Slowly, but 
surely, are a greater number of souls awakening 
into the Cosmic Consciousness, and as the number 
increases will they, having a higher vision, lovingly 
lead those who are a little behind and gradually 
through thought, meditation, and experiment, 
will the code of laws, conventions and morals be 
adjusted to this higher consciousness. We will 
some day have demonstrated, here on Earth, 
many, many Real Marriages founded on a "Great 
Love"; Ideal Friendships; and the "Brotherhood 
of Man," really lived and proved to be a practical 
working principle. (This will indeed be the King- 
dom of Heaven on Earth.) 

Before closing this lesson, which is necessarily 
long because it deals with the most vital subjects 
in Life, I wish to make the statement that I have 
met many Teachers, Healers and Students of 
New Thought, Mental, Divine, Spiritual and 
Christian Science, and I have never found one 
who did not have a very Spiritual Ideal of Love 
and Marriage and the Ethics of personal life. 
When, therefore, the Statement is made that we 
believe in "Free Love," we can say "Yes!" 
But that does not mean promiscuous loves, nor 
loves of the animal plane; and while, if we know 
that it must and will be "Free" in its attraction, 
we also know that it must be controlled by each 



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individual Soul, and according to the laws of the 
land, or it will demonstrate great inharmony. 

Students, Teachers, and Healers should realize 
that there is a connection between all these lessons. 
No one can be thoroughly understood without all 
the others. Beginning with "The Unity of the 
Universe," they lead on through this life and its 
problems and experiences up to the time of "pas- 
sing on" to another life. In whatever way I call 
attention to negative conditions, I do so only in 
order that I may point out the way of "Highest 
Truth To Me" for their elimination, or correction, 
as I am convinced, through the consciousness 
given me by life experiences, that "All is Good" 
("in the last analysis") and that all pain, suffer- 
ing, agony of soul and body, comes to us because 
we are ignorant of so many of God's laws; that 
even all the inharmonies of the past have been 
necessary, and we may still say, "All has been 
Good," because through the prodding and pain 
have we evolved until now; when many have 
awakened into the Cosmic or Christ Conscious- 
ness, where we shall learn laws, conventions, and 
codes which will transcend the old dispensation, 
so that in the future, beginning right here and now, 
we may live and grow, demonstrating Health and 
Harmony of Soul and Body. Let each one who 
reads this and the next lesson reread them many 
times, and quietly, bravely face his or her own 
life, asking for Wisdom from the "Voice within," 
to see the reasons back of some wrong belief or 
attitude of mind, thought, or action for every 
inharmony in body or environment. 



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Each soul that honestly does this will find the 
cause. Then, by using the technique I have given 
in the earlier lessons, there is no limit to the 
wonders that may be accomplished ! 

In my next lesson I shall give some of the wrong 
attitudes in the past toward Family Life, which 
have been the cause of inharmony and thereby 
of diseases of different kinds; and the new and 
advanced ideas which will correct these negative 
conditions. Also my ideal of Motherhood and 
Fatherhood and some Suggestions as to the 
Method of Teaching children the laws of Life. 

The books I particularly recommend with this 
lesson are: — 

"Love and Marriage," by Ellen Key. 

"Woman and Labor," by Olive Schreiner. 

" The Dawn of Love and Death" and all others by Edward 
Carpenter. 

All books by Havelock Ellis, who is an authority on the 
subject of "sex" and who has the highest and most beauti- 
ful Ideals. 

"Marriage," "Man and Super Man," by Bernard Shaw. 

"Damaged Goods" and two other plays by Brieux. 

"The Mother as a World Power," by James Henry Larson, 
Ph.D., with the Prenatal Culture Method of Mrs. Kate 
Livingstone. 

"How to Train Children and Parents," by Elizabeth Towne. 

"Education in New Thought for Children," with Bibli- 
ography, by Helen Rhodes- Wallace. 




Lesson X 

FAMILY LIFE AND HOW TO TEACH THE 
LAWS OF LIFE TO CHILDREN 




MOTHERHOOD and Fatherhood 
■ls» are the most important, responsi- 
sible, and sacred experiences in 
this life, and may if rightly under- 
stood be the happiest; but as 
| |^%^^^^| r with all great Laws and experi- 
i ^ 1 r == ^ ences, if not understood and 

therefore not properly lived, the results are great 
inharmony and the "Hell" State. I shall first 
bring out a number of reasons, on account of 
wrong ideas of the past in regard to "God," Life, 
and its meaning, for the many inharmonies in 
family life existing to-day. One of the greatest of 
these is the idea that children were "owned" by 
their parents; that the latter had the right to 
rule and control them even after they were 
grown men and women; that they were personally 
responsible for them to a God of Wrath and 
Vengeance. This later belief has been at the 
root of the other attitude, and was if true really 
logical. We have all no doubt, known cases 

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where the old idea of the obligation of child to 
parent has extended into mature years, usually 
with one member of a family, a daughter perhaps, 
of whom a selfish mother or sister demands con- 
stant attention and self-sacrifice. I have known 
several cases where a mother would not give 
her consent to the marriage of a daughter when 
love came into her life, simply because she was 
selfish, and did not want to give up the indi- 
vidual attention she had received from this child 
for so long that she felt it necessary — Yes ! there 
have been many selfish Mothers who have tried 
to believe, and have others do so, that their de- 
pendence on their child was from love, when in 
Truth it has been selfishness. Of course, each 
case, as in all problems between two or more souls, 
is an individual one, and no one outside can ever 
give definite advice. But we can tell them the 
laws, and one of those is the necessity for each 
soul to decide all such questions by calling to and 
asking of the "God within" (Holy Spirit), by 
whatever name they call it — and having received 
the answer abide by it, and never regret, knowing 
that the decision having been made, after asking 
for wisdom, must have been right. And even 
if it seems to bring inharmony for a time, the 
Souls concerned must have needed even that. 
There are times when it is right and necessary 
to use the Surgeon's knife and hurt people, for a 
principle. 

When we get the first gleam of the larger Cosmic 
or Christ Consciousness that each soul is an 
expression of the God essence, who has come into 



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this world in order that it may learn certain lessons, 
etc., we realize that each child is a soul which 
attracts, and is attracted to, a certain environ- 
ment, and that this soul is simply loaned to its 
parents, that they may love, teach, and prepare 
it to become free and independent of them; and 
through this experience grow in knowledge and 
greater consciousness of themselves. As I have 
said in former lessons, our ideas of God carry 
through and affect all of our ideas of life's rela- 
tions. When man believed in a God who was a 
stern Father, one who demanded "an eye for an 
eye and a tooth for a tooth/' who would punish, 
even to eternity, of course his conception of earthly 
Fatherhood was along the same lines, and children 
were brought up with the great "Fear" of their 
Father; this to such an extent that the church 
felt the necessity for some softer, more loving 
conception, and commenced to idealize "Mary," 
the Mother of Jesus, and to worship her, this 
bringing forth the love attitude, desire for which 
had awakened in many souls; while this adoration 
of "Mary" has been carried to extreme, we can 
(as with each step in the evolution of man), upon 
looking back through the ages, realize that each 
"New Thought" has been an advance and a 
necessary step in the evolution of the Race and the 
World. The Law seems always to be a swinging 
of the pendulum from one extreme to the other, 
then gradually slowing down to balance and 
rhythm. During the past generation with a 
higher ideal of God, the Christ Ideal of a loving 
Father, with the attributes of the mother included, 



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has come the change of attitude in the home. 
Instead of control by "Fear," punishment, and 
reward, has come the "Love" attitude which 
Jesus tried to teach, but which it has taken 
nineteen hundred years for man to really under- 
stand as a practical working system of life, and 
even now it is realized by only a few, and with 
them is still in its infancy. 

We are to-day going through a transition stage, 
in regard to family life, as with everything else. 
In some cases, where the father and mother still 
have the Puritan orthodox ideas and cling to their 
"authority" — or perhaps have outgrown the 
"letter," but still have the spirit, they feel that 
their children, having been lovingly and carefully 
reared until the time for going out into the world 
to gain experience in different ways, should con- 
tinue to think and act according to the ideas 
which the parents had for them, and when they 
dare to have "New Thoughts," different ideas, 
to try new paths, the parents are either frightened 
or hurt, or both — forgetting that had this not 
been done generation after generation there would 
have been no evolution of either body or soul. 

Now starting with our higher conception, the 
child comes into this world attached to and by 
its Mother and Father, for some special reasons: 
they, accepting it as an expression of the Divine 
God Life loaned to them to care for through its 
period of helplessness, coming in answer to the 
call of "A Great Love," consecrate their lives 
to it, and realize that to care for it, day by day, 
watching it unfold, studying each little gleam of 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 127 

consciousness, as well as physical growth, will be 
their greatest duty and pleasure, as well as to add 
to their own understanding of Life. 

In thinking over the problems of life from my 
own experience and that of others, I believe that 
the most important laws to teach a child are the 
following (please note sequence) : 

1. Good habits, of cleanliness, and courtesy, 
respect for self, and of all others, because each 
is a part of the God Life. These will later in life 
act subconsciously, or become a part of the char- 
acter of the child. 

2. Self-Control. 

3. Cause and effect — compensation — "As it 
gives, so will it receive," in every way. 

4. Unselfishness, as differenciated from general 
self-sacrifice, or weak giving up for peace. 

Each of these laws should be explained clearly; 
the reasons why they are necessary and will be 
needed all through life. The teaching of these 
laws can begin immediately after birth, as all 
nurses now understand, habits can be immediately 
formed which will either make the arrival of the 
babe a blessing or — at least a great care, and 
almost take away the comfort and happiness of 
the entire family. 

As soon as the child is old enough to ask the 
first "why?' 9 it should be answered honestly 
as far as the parents know, and if they do not know, 
let them honestly say so, and that they will help 
the child find the answer. 

One of the first things a child to-day will ask is, 
"Where do kittens and doggies, chickens, and 



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then, babies, come from? " Instead of telling them 
the old stories of the stork, etc., which the children 
of to-day will not believe, tell of the One God life 
in everything; show them the birds and tell them 
about their nests, the Mother staying on the eggs 
and having patience to sit quietly and keep them 
warm, while the Father goes out to get food for 
both; study the life of plants and flowers, bees, 
etc., and tell them about each, — that there is the 
"Mother and Father" in everything, that the 
Earth is the Mother and the Sun the Father of 
all this planet. 

If this teaching is commenced when the child 
first asks, say between two and three years of age, 
it will be prepared for everything, as it grows in 
consciousness and there will never be any shock 
when the time comes to apply this knowledge to 
itself. If a Mother keeps close to her child she 
will know with her intuitive mind just the moment 
when it is ready to hear of its own birth — of 
how she, its Mother, carried it under her heart 
for months, and felt its little life, and then how, 
through pain and suffering, it was born into this 
world, the greatest of all miracles. I know from 
experience that children thus taught are spared 
suffering, hours of wondering, then probably 
wrong instruction, which has in many cases 
impaired health through the entire life ! 

Dr. G. Stanley Hall said in a lecture I heard 
him give on "Eugenics," "The greatest drawback 
we meet in trying to teach this new Science is the 
false modesty of Mothers." They say, "I cannot 
talk to my child on such subjects." All this is 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 129 

of course the result (as I said in the last lesson) of 
wrong attitude toward the Sex question. Dr. 
Hall added, "What we need are women who 
understand these laws and can explain to Mothers, 
and tell them why and how to teach the laws of 
Life to their children, for only by so doing can we 
protect and preserve the race." We must learn 
that ignorance is not innocence; that if we wish to 
keep our children innocent we must inform them 
as to all the laws of Life as far as it is in our power. 
We would not send them out into the world 
without telling them of other dangers, and yet in 
the past parents have allowed their children to go 
into the world, to meet the most dangerous con- 
ditions, in absolute ignorance as to their existence. 
The consequences have of course been terrible 
in many cases. We owe devout thanks to men 
like Ibsen, Hauptmann, Brieux, Bernard Shaw, 
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, and others, 
and women such as Ellen Key, Olive Schreiner, 
Florence Kingsley, Margaret Morely, and many 
others who have dared not only to think but to 
speak out the Truth on these subjects. 

Again — I would say to all Mothers and Fathers, 
keep your children near you in Soul as well as Body, 
Keep their confidence by loving them and being 
true and honest with them. They are "little men 
and women"; treat them as such. Appeal to 
the Good, the God which they really are, and so 
that will come forth! Teach them to respect 
themselves as a part of the "God Life" and also 
to respect others for the same reason. Give 
them high Ideals! Teach them that there is a 



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reason for their being here; that it is to unfold 
and express the God essence which they really are. 
Teach them the Laws of Life and sex, as the 
highest expression of God in this Life, that a 
woman or any animal that is carrying young is 
sacred; and that they should always protect all 
such in every way possible — that they have no 
right to kill or take the life of anything unneces- 
sarily, nor to cause any of the manifestations of 
God's Life to suffer. 

There is a tendency to-day, particularly in the 
United States, for the Mothers to have entire 
charge of the children; the Fathers, being so taken 
up with their business, earning the money to 
supply the physical needs, find it difficult to 
have time and opportunity to really know their 
own children. This is all the result of a wrong 
social system, and both the children and the Fathers 
miss much that is beautiful and educational, 
through this lack of companionship. The Father's 
point of view (if he is a Real Father with the at- 
titude of interest and love for his child) is needed, 
with both boys and girls, and where he has not 
included himself there is a great lack, to him and 
the child. 

As the children grow gradually into maturity 
there should be a "letting go," by both parents, 
allowing each child to express him or herself as 
far as possible, in speech and also in action. The 
parents should be able to discuss all subjects 
freely with them, each respecting the others 
opinion. Often the parents can tell the children 
of personal experiences through which they have 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 131 

learned certain lessons, etc., and advise them 
lovingly to avoid certain actions that they may 
not be obliged to suffer as the result of more 
mistaken demonstration. 

Then comes the test of the really Great Father 
and Mother! When, even though all this has been 
demonstrated, they have unselfishly lived for 
their children, have put their interests first at all 
times, have spent hours with them, talking, 
advising, etc., the Father has worked to get the 
money to clothe, educate and give them comforts 
and luxuries, and after all this, the girl perhaps 
insists upon marrying the one man of whom the 
parents do not approve, and the boy goes out 
into the world, and does some, perhaps all of the 
things of which he has been told and warned! 
Just this experience is the crucifixion which has 
come to so many parents and through which they 
have been obliged to find higher laws and a greater 
consciousness; when this is the result , they can 
indeed be thankful for the experience and say 
"All is Good," and those who have or do not learn 
in this way must suffer more until they also learn 
the higher Truth. Those of us who are born 
into the Cosmic or Christ Consciousness realize 
that each soul must attract every experience 
it needs in order to learn its lessons in this life; 
therefore — when the parents have done every- 
thing they know to do, with all the light they can 
get, and the children do not demonstrate accord- 
ing to their ideas, they should realize that they 
cannot, simply because they have been their 
physical children, know just what each soul needs, 



132 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

therefore they must "let go," love them, use the 
technique given in the earlier lessons; declare 
their real life to be a part of the God Essence and 
that it must and will demonstrate what is best for 
them, and then Trust the God of the Universe, 
realizing that the same God Life which is within 
the parent is within the child and can be trusted 
(must be) to work in just the right way in order to 
demonstrate harmony to the soul. Right here 
in these intricate, complex problems of Family 
Life are the higher laws of Spiritual Science most 
valuable! In fact I often wonder how parents 
and children live, continue to exist, through them 
without the knowledge of these laws; I am often 
amazed that there are not many, many more 
suicides ! 

To go farther into the problem of Family Life 
I will take the other side of the question, that of 
the Child; when a boy or girl has been reared in 
a home where the parents have been kind, loving, 
and generous, have lived up to these high ideals 
to a great extent, they naturally have a love and 
respect for both parents, or the one who has so 
demonstrated. But the tendency to-day is to 
make the children selfish by too much of everything, 
from attention to things and pleasures of all kinds, 
and in many cases the children are reared to be 
self -centered and selfish without the realization of 
either parent or child, until they are grown men 
and women and it is most difficult for them to 
teach themselves unselfishness, particularly toward 
the parents. We find upon quietly studying 
these problems, looking at our own experiences, in 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 133 

the light of all science, etc., which we have 
gathered, that human "Life" is a continual adjust- 
ment of the soul to its environment, the "inner to 
the outer," and this attempt at adjustment is 
the Greatest of all Arts. Just because there is the 
"Unity of Life" and wondrous diversity of expres- 
sion, it is most complex, and there can never be any 
absolute freedom of action by extreme individualism: 
for each is a part of the whole and affects the whole 
at all times for good or ill. For the same reason 
there can never be a permanent code of Ethics or 
behavior along any line, because all outer forms are 
constantly changing and what might be right at 
one time, under certain conditions could be very 
wrong at another time, considering all conditions. 
Thus complex problems are constantly changing 
in each one's experience; and in family life, be- 
cause the relations are more intimate, the souls 
are more closely united by love, common interest, 
etc., they are much more intricate and difficult 
to solve. 

In these relations there Is vicarious suffering! If 
each soul in a family had the Christ Conscious- 
ness, to the extent that Jesus had it, there would 
not be this pain, but each is in a different stage of 
development or unfoldment, and therefore can- 
not quite understand any of the others. There- 
fore when one of the family acts in a manner that 
some other one, or perhaps all the others, feel is a 
wrong demonstration and will bring inharmony 
and suffering to the one they love, and vicariously 
to themselves, a difficult problem has arisen ! How 
shall it be solved? At this point we have what 



134 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

Will Levington Comfort calls, "that Will o' the 
Wisp Free Will." Each is free to choose his or 
her line of action, and to pay the price for it! We 
read in every newspaper we unfold the results of 
selfish (so-called free) actions of members of fami- 
lies, along all lines — tragedies of every description; 
often, perhaps in most cases, each has acted with 
the best intentions — but because their conscious- 
ness was not great enough to include the other 
souls, a mistaken attitude was taken by one or 
more, which involved itself and all the others in 
great inharmony. 

Let us look at an imaginary case from the dif- 
ferent angles of each member of the family, pre- 
supposing they were in the Christ Consciousness. 
The attitude of each one would then be that because 
of their great love for Mother, Father, Sister, 
Brother, or child they would never, except for a 
principle^ or to preserve their own soul, hurt one of 
their near and dear ones, and if, through thought- 
lessness, ignorance, or misunderstanding, they had 
done so, would be quick to ask forgiveness and of 
course it would be granted! Now, supposing one 
soul in the family felt it right to take the initiative 
and follow a certain line of conduct of which 
the other members disapproved; before acting, 
even though he or she might believe it perfectly 
right individually, taken alone; careful thought 
would be given as to whether the action or line of 
conduct would really bring enough satisfaction 
of any kind to make it worth while, considering 
the consequent inharmony and unhappiness re- 
sulting from the suffering to loved ones, and the 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 135 

necessary and inevitable reflex pain and sorrow to 
self. I do not mean by this that any harmless 
pleasure or desire should be given up by one 
member of the family in order to cater to the 
" whim" or selfish pleasure of another, nor that 
a principle should ever be sacrificed, but if each one 
would, through honest self-examination, be sure 
that their desires or demonstrations were not 
selfish, and if each really loved with an unsel- 
fish love the other members of the family, the 
problems could be solved with very little 
inharmony. 

This "vision" I have given is of an Ideal 
Family, where all have been born into the Christ 
Consciousness, but I have never personally known 
such a family. I have, however, known several 
where one or two are in the consciousness but the 
others are still unawakened, living under the old 
dispensation — now we know that the Greater 
includes the lesser, and the one who has the larger 
consciousness must demonstrate accordingly; as 
Ibsen says in the "Master Builder," "We must 
climb as high as we build"', each is responsible 
only as far as he or she knows, and again, quoting 
Sir Oliver Lodge — ■ "Sin is a reversal to a lower 
after knowledge of a higher." One Soul in a 
family can by studying and using the laws of 
Spiritual Science (which Jesus the Christ taught 
and lived) be the "Yeast" to leaven the whole 
and bring into Realization Harmony out of great 
Chaos — The Heaven State out of Hell. The 
same laws which apply to family life are just as 
efficient in regard to all other social adjustments, 



136 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

in fact, our relations in life are to me like a stone 
thrown into the water; it makes a small circle 
very close, then another a little farther out, and 
so on to the outermost ripple, and so each in- 
dividual soul has first the one nearest and dearest, 
then the "Family," then perhaps the " Church " 
or some ethical organization, or philanthrophy, 
business, etc., and in our dealings with other souls 
along all these lines the same laws may be used 
effectively. Susan Blow, the great Kindergarten 
Teacher, an interpreter of "Froebel," who has 
lately "passed on," said that if we really loved 
our Brother, our "neighbor as ourself," the rules 
laid down by Jesus would be a perfectly natural 
and easy code. For if a loved child, or mother, 
father, sister, or brother asked for our coat, 
we would not only give it our cloak but also 
anything else they desired, and it would be no 
sacrifice nor hardship. If we study our own 
thoughts and actions, examine ourselves occa- 
sionally as to our motives, we will learn to demon- 
strate greater harmony, and as Luther Burbank 
is doing with vegetation, gain years in our own 
evolution. 

For the technique : Go alone to the place where 
you feel the Unity to the greatest extent, get quiet 
by treating yourself, then "see" the soul you wish 
to influence, as perfect, its best self. Declare 
strongly (after calling it by its name) that it is a 
part of the Divine God Life, that it is demon- 
strating more and more of the Perfect Life which 
it really is, that it can not and will not, continue 
to demonstrate inharmoniously, that it is awaken- 



How to Teach the Laws of Life 137 

ing now, and will see the Light and learn the 
higher Truth. Keep this up, every day, always 
before going to sleep at night and whenever you 
think of this soul. Do not force or strain, but 
after treating in this way, say, "I call upon Thee, 
Thou Great I Am That I Am to work in this soul: 
and I ask in the name of Jesus the Christ! Thy 
Will be Done!' 9 Do all this in a loving, strong, 
trustful attitude. Then Trust the God of the 
Universe and know that all things will work to- 
gether for the Good of the Soul you are treating, 
and for all. Go alone and read this lesson every 
time a family complication arises and then use 
the Treatment. Then do not limit God as to 
time nor any details; just ^ Trust and rest and 
know." 

Books I recommend in addition to those mentioned 
in previous lessons are : — 

"Man, Woman and Child, " by Minot J. Savage. 

"Essays," by Robert Ingersoll. 

"The Century of the Child," by Ellen Key. 

"The Child and the Book," by Gerald Stanley Hall. 

"The Montessori Method," by Madame Montessori. 

"A Montessori Mother," by Dorothy Canfield. 

Works of Froebel. 

Works of Susan Blow. 

"Adolescence," by Dr. G. Stanley Hall (most important). 

"Education," by Herbert Spencer. 

"The Life of the Bee" and "The Blue Bird," by Maurice 
Maeterlinck. 

"The Song of Life" and "Life and Love," by Margaret 
Morley. 

" Bible Stories Retold," by Hiram W. Hayes. 

" Child's Christ Tales," by Andrea Hoper Proudfoot. 

Books by Thornton W. Burgess and Howard H. Garis. 



138 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

These latter authors write most interesting 
stories of animals, making them seem like human 
beings, and teach the habits, etc., in a way that 
will be retained by the child throughout life and 
will greatly assist it to realize the same life within 
all. 




Lesson XI 

WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF SPIRITUAL 
SCIENCE TOWARD DEATH 

What is Death? 

'Tis but a changing 

Through the Eternal God's arranging, 

Of a coarser to a finer, 

From a lower to a higher 

As we journey on. 

Thus the Trees and Flowers 

Every year their leaves exchanging 

Grow each season to a beauty more amazing, 

Proving we may Trust the Great Refiner, 

Him who's the Ideal Designer; 

The One who can the finished picture look upon 

If He so clothe the Fields 

And of each Birdling's song He notes the raising. 

If in each man there is this "craving," 

If in all Matter there's Divine Desire, 

And nothing can be lost, not e'en by Fire 

Surely, Man's Soul must go forever on. 

|WAY back through the ages if we 
search and study the history of 
Man we find that one of primitive 
man's first impulses was to try 
to get into right relation with the 
"Power" of the Universe, which 
he recognized as greater than 
is still attempting this and always 
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himself. 



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will, for this Power is his God, and his belief about 
God will always govern his actions toward God. 

The second impulse seems to have been the 
desire to live after Death. The Egyptians treated 
the bodies of their friends after death in such a 
way that they were preserved for many years, 
because they believed literally that the same body 
was resurrected. In the Bible we find in "Job," 
one of the oldest books, the question, "If a man 
die shall he live again?" This question has been 
in the minds of all souls since the first man evolved 
to simple Self Consciousness, and is there to-day. 
I shall not try to prove mathematically that there 
is life beyond Death, but simply call your atten- 
tion to certain Truths and laws which, it seems to 
me (and many of our most noted scientists take 
this attitude) make such a belief logical and more 
than probable. 

Let us begin with "Unity," the law of our First 
Lesson: The Universe a living, beating, pulsing 
Cosmos, the life of which is one and the same in 
and through all; nothing can be added to, nor 
taken from, this Life Essence; it is. Its first 
law is to express, and it does so constantly, in 
different forms; these latter are constantly chang- 
ing, but the life is the same. Read Lesson VII, in 
which I quote scientists, in regard to these laws. 
One says, "You cannot destroy the head of a pin." 

Now think quietly about this. If everything (as 
Science now says) in the Universe is composed of 
Atoms, which are vibrating at different rates of 
speed, Spirit, being the original Life Essence, 
must be the highest vibration, and we cannot of 



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course "see it nor feel it" with our five senses. 
Spirit and Spiritual Truths must be understood 
through our finer senses, an inner knowing, a 
higher consciousness. Jesus the Christ came 
into this world to prove to those who were near 
enough to him Spiritually and with Love and so 
could understand, that Souls having passed 
through the change called Death did live again. 
If we can believe the record of his resurrection, 
only those who in life had been near to him and 
loved him saw him after the crucifixion and those 
who did not see him did not believe. It is always 
so with Spiritual Truths and experiences; the 
deepest and most wonderful in life; those who 
have not awakened to the Spiritual, Cosmic or 
Christ Consciousness cannot see, hear, nor under- 
stand these experiences and to them, they do not 
exist, while those who are in this higher conscious- 
ness "know," and all the denial of the whole 
world can not take away their knowledge ! 

The "Spiritualists" of the past and those of 
the Modern times, Theosophists and many others, 
have studied, meditated, and experimented with 
these laws and experiences. Several years ago 
a number of scientists abroad and in America 
organized a Society for Psychical Research. This 
organization has received many, many records of 
experiences along psychic lines and they have 
investigated all very carefully and kept records 
of those which seemed worth while. Since this 
Society was organized several of its original and 
most active and interested members have "passed 
on" to another life; among those are Frederick 



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Meyers, William James, and William T. Stead. 
These men were among those who when in this 
life made compacts with the other members that 
the ones who "passed on" first should try in 
every way to make themselves known, and those 
in this life were to expect them and be ready to 
receive messages. A number of reputable scien- 
tists feel that they have had messages. In the 
Unpopular Review, October to December, 1915, 
is an article entitled "Some Heteromatic Writing," 
which gives the theories of different scientists 
as to the way in which this writing is done and 
messages given. The unknown writer of this 
article says, "Our own humble guess is that all 
Souls are but manifestations of a Cosmic Soul, 
just as all forms are shifting portions of Cosmic 
Matter and all motions manifestations of the 
Cosmic Energy. The portions of Cosmic Soul 
vary here and now with different bodies; but as 
they are all parts of the same Soul, their mani- 
festations, like those of the Cosmic Energy, shade 
into each other. This guess is on a subject as yet 
very vague, and will justly strike you as very 
vague, even in its language. In a sense nobody 
knows what Heteromatic Writing is. But in that 
sense, nobody knows what anything is; for there are 
apparently unending depths of Mystery under 
all our knowledge; it consists of surface appear- 
ances but they grow deeper every day." 

Then follow some very interesting experiences 
with this writing. Many instances of communi- 
cation between souls who have "passed on" to 
another life and those remaining in this world 



What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 143 

are described fully in the Journal of Psychical 
Research and in books by authors, a list of whom 
I will give at the end of this Lesson. One very 
interesting one may be found in the Unpopular 
Review, July-September, 1916. This one is sup- 
posed to be from Mr. Edwin Friend, who was 
drowned on the Lusitania. Mr. Friend had 
assisted Dr. Hyslop in conducting the Journal 
of the American Society of Psychical Research, 
and Mr. Friend is believed to have appeared to 
his wife and Dr. Hyslop several times. The 
article is very convincing. Personally I have since 
childhood been interested in the subject of Life 
beyond Death — have always subconsciously be- 
lieved it, but within the last few years it has 
become a part of my consciousness. I feel just 
as sure of it as that I am living now in this world ! 
This is a Truth to me. My first realization came 
to me when sitting beside one I loved, holding her 
hand, waiting for the "Life to go out." All was 
quiet — then one instant the hand that had been 
warm commenced to stiffen, the whole body 
changed. — Life had gone! Then came the 
thought to me — If this Life could go out right 
before my eyes, and all my physical senses alert! 
and I neither see nor hear it, why could it not be 
with me, come back at other times in the same 
vehicle or substance in which it left the Body? 
Why not? Since that time I have been with 
several who have "passed on" and it is to me as 
simple as the Locust that sheds its coarser shell 
and has a body exactly like the coarser, but of 
finer fiber, finer vibrations. The cocoon and the 



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butterfly is another illustration — the same life, 
changing form. I have had experiences of dear 
ones who have "passed on," coming to me and 
giving me Thoughts of Help, Strength, and Love 
that were as real to me as any visit of a friend in 
their physical Body, and there are many scientists, 
practical men and women, who have had these 
same experiences. Psychologists are experiment- 
ing to-day with children, and are developing a 
keener hearing through the ear, and eyesight 
that sees new colors. These scientists believe that 
we will evolve other senses than the five we now 
have. Many sane scientific men and women 
believe that those who are being born into Cosmic 
Consciousness have developed to a greater or less 
extent a "Sixth Sense," what we have called a 
"psychic" sense, or intuition. Many of us 
know that we have it and that through this we 
have our Spiritual Experiences. In an earlier 
lesson I have quoted from Emma Curtis Hopkins 
that "A principle is a comprehensive law or 
doctrine from which others are derived." 

This being true, the idea of Life after death 
within the mind of one Soul really proves it! Does 
it not? The life of the Cosmos, one Life, in that 
everything that ever has been or will be in Essence, 
there is nothing and no idea except it comes from 
that God Essence, therefore men cannot have an 
idea of anything that is not in that God Essence of 
All. And there we have the law that every 
Desire of the Soul predicts its fulfilment. Now 
that scientists like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver 
Lodge, Alfred Russell Wallace, Dr. Hyslop, and 



What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 145 

others have publicly affirmed that they have 
demonstrated enough to make them believe in 
Telepathy, Life beyond Death, etc., it will not be 
long until it will be proven to all. One great 
assistance in this realization is that Life is Eternal, 
meaning before this life as well as after. We 
have not understood the words we have used — 
"Eternal" and "Everlasting," means circle, no be- 
ginning, no end. Simply Life expressing! chang- 
ing form, from time to time, but always the same 
individual Life, each individual needed in order to 
complete the whole, — now, of course, we can only 
meditate, use our individual experiences and 
those of others, and theorize as to the details. 

I feel that the Theosophists have a great many 
"Truths" and yet I have some individual ideas. 
Suppose that each soul comes back to this Earth 
Planet as long as it needs the Lessons to be learned 
only here; after that, why should it not go to 
another Planet, in a body suited to the Life and 
environment on that one, and so on forever and 
ever, unfolding the God Life which it really is? 
Do we not read that "One star differeth from 
another star in Glory" and that "In my Father's 
house are many mansions"? Life after Death 
seems to me much more believable than the " War " 
that is now in progress, or than the building and 
use of aeroplanes, submarines, the Marconi, all 
these so-called Facts of to-day. And are not the 
dreams of one generation the facts of the next? 

After considering carefully all the Wonders 
that have materialized, the Scientific Arrival of 
to-day along all lines, I am sure we may say with 



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the late Phillips Brooks, one of the great Souls 
and Prophets who has "passed on," that "There 
is no death, what seems so is transition," and with 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in her beautiful poem — 
"There is no Death, There are no Dead." 

List of Books and Authors. 

American Institute for Scientific Research, "Section B." 

Physical Research " Journal' ' sent monthly 44 East 23d 
St., New York City, N.Y. 

"Borderland of Psychical Research." 

"Empire of Psychical Research." 

"Science and a Future Life." 

"Psychical Research and the Resurrection." 

"Problems of Philosophy," by James H. Hyslop, Ph.D., 
L.L.D. 

"Mysterious Psychic Forces," by Camille Flammarion. 

"The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism" and "The 
Cosmic Science, " by Hereward Carrington. 

" Proofs of Life after Death," by Robert J. Thompson. 

"After Death — What? " by Cesare Lombroso. 

"Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern Science," by 
I. W. Heysinger. 

"Life beyond Death." 

"Can Telepathy Explain," by Minot J. Savage. 

"On the Cosmic Relations," by Henry Holt. 

"Letters from a Living Dead Man," by Elsa Barker. 

"Raymond, " by Sir Oliver Lodge. 




Lesson XII 
SOME MYSTIC LAWS 




^HOSE who have studied ancient 
Mythology, Religion, and Mys- 
ticism have found that always as 
man has been "Inspired" has he 
given out higher Spiritual Truths. 
Long before there was any 
kind of writing, these statements 
were given out through "Symbols," pictures as it 
were, and each soul who believed himself inspired 
beyond the majority became a leader and gave 
out Edicts which were believed to have come 
directly from the God or Gods in whom they at 
that time believed. Comparing these "Sacred 
Books" or Bibles, we find in all the same general 
ideas, though they are expressed differently in 
each according to the customs of the people and 
country. While in all these books there are mis- 
takes in science, etc., and they cannot be taken 
literally, there are Spiritual Laws back of all the 
Symbols and those who are awakened to the 
Spiritual Consciousness can find in each and all 
the same underlying principles. Mrs. Emma 
Curtis Hopkins says, "A clearly unified instruc- 

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tion runs in almost verbatim language through 
all the sacred or charmed books of the world." 
"It is the foot-path of the immortals!" 

"It concerns that swift subtle faculty possessed 
by us all whereby we look whithersoever we will; 
to Deity, ever beholding us, or to the dust be- 
neath, without the aid of our physical eyes." 
"Thou canst not behold me with thy two outer 
eyes; I have given thee an eye divine" (Upani- 
shads) . 

This subtle sense or inner eye is the psychic or 
Sixth Sense, which becomes more and more de- 
veloped as we grow in Cosmic Consciousness. 
With this " eye " or sense we can obey the command 
or invitation which the Old Prophets and Seers 
give out as from God — "Look unto me and be 
Thou saved," and the acceptance of this invitation 
by man is his way of returning to the "Source" 
from which he came, — "The Light," The Sun 
which is always shining through him and of which 
he is one "ray." This is the Path of Light — 
The "Tao." 

" Make use of the Light, returning again to its source; 
Thy body shall be free from Calamity's course, 
And Thou shalt train with the Eternal at Length." 

— (Tao-Teh-King) 
"Man alone of all the animals goes in quest of his origin, 
and perceiving that the highest good is to be sought by him 
in the highest place, looks to his maker." — (Lactantius) 

This faculty is older than "mind" and it is 
what we most "see" rather than what we think, 
that is back of our actions. "It is not possible 
for any thing to take place save in connection with 



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an onlooker." (This is from an old Vedic Hymn.) 
We become sad and depressed if we look upon 
faces that are sad, while if we see others smiling 
we feel like doing so ourselves. 

" For that thou seest man, 

That too become thou must, 
God if thou seest God 
Dust if thou seest Dust." 

"To look upward with the mystic eye is to 
start on the Saving Tao" — (Emma Curtis Hop- 
kins). "Look unto me and be ye saved," — "I 
will turn away your captivity from before your 
eyes when ye turn unto me seeking my face," 
wrote the two great Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. 

"The Highest and Inmost are one," said two 
great mystics, Behmen and Hugo of St. Victor. 

" Look up my comrade; 
When on the glances of the upturned eye 
The plumed thoughts take travel, and ascend 
Through the unfathomable purple mansions 
Threading the golden fires, and ever climbing 
As if 'twere homewards winging — at such times, 
The native Soul, distrammeled of dim Earth, 
Doth know herself immortal, and sits light 
Upon each temporal place." — (Violenzia) 

Looking up, with the inner eye 

Changes everything seen 
with the outer physical eyes, opens a window 

So that we see a new world; 

With this inner, sense is all "matter" 

"Spiritualized." 

In heaven there is a pattern which he who chooses may 
behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. — (Plato) 



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So eagerly did the untaught seers of the past 
long for this faculty that they practiced self-efface- 
ment, self-denial, in every way in order to gain it. 
But it asks no such methods, only the simple 
looking upward with the inner Sense or eye, and 
seeing, and thereby knowing, the "God of Love" 
who is always smiling and looking at man. If 
we read the history of all saints and seers we find 
that all those who kept their "vision" high be- 
came strong and calm and gained the Cosmic or 
Christ Consciousness. Jesus said to the blind 
man, "Look up!" To all people in times of 
calamity, he said "Look up! for your redemption 
moveth toward you." Jacob was turned from 
destruction when reasonable terrors shook him 
all night long by the Jabbok Brook, by seeing 
"God face to face." Job, when suffering from 
boils and miserable in every way, was healed 
and lifted unto a higher consciousness and said, 
"My witness is in heaven and my record is on 
high." 

"Thou canst upraise thyself by thyself, and 
rouse thyself by thyself; for self is the Lord of 
self, self is the refuge of self" (the Bhikshu). 
When we meditate upon this law, "That thou 
seest, that thou beest," we realize how important 
it is that we should carefully select that which we 
"see" in order to become that which we wish. 

The first Mystic Law, then, we find, is the 
"Looking up with the inner eyes unto the God 
of the Universe, who is always looking down in 
Love." 

The second law is that of "Remission" through 



Some Mystic Laws 151 

this upward looking. By looking unto God the 
Father with this inner sense, did Jesus become so 
charged with the Divine Life that he could heal 
the sick. Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, the 
Great Prophets and Seers and Poets have to a 
greater or less extent realized this law, and as they 
have experienced it their "Sins have been re- 
mitted"; that is they have been freed from the 
material laws of compensation, etc. Those who 
daily and hourly look unto God will more and more 
become like Him and will rise above the old dis- 
pensation and live in the higher Cosmic or Christ 
Consciousness. Paul, in his address on Mars Hill, 
declared, "The Unknown, who giveth life and 
Spirit;" He could not describe Him but called 
Him the "I am that I am." Jesus said, "My 
Father is greater than I," and as he constantly 
kept his "eye" on God The Father, he received 
strength, health, power, through the Cosmic 
Consciousness of God as all; those born into this 
higher vibration find laws which transcend those 
of the lower self-consciousness and the five senses. 
The transcending of these laws is expressed in old 
Psalms, as given by Emma Curtis Hopkins : 

Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no evil. 

Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no matter and its laws. 

Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no loss, no lack, no ab- 
sence, no deprivation. 

Steadfastly facing Thee, there is nothing to Fear, for there 
shall be no power to hurt. 

Steadfastly facing Thee, there is neither sin nor sickness 
nor death. 

The way of Life is above to the wise that he may depart 
from Hell beneath. 



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We must awaken from our "Earth Drowse " 
and look up! We shall then see that there is 
only "one," the great I am that I am. 

After we get even a slight gleam of the Cosmic 
or Christ Consciousness we can read the Sacred 
Books of the World with inner "Knowing" and 
understand them as never before. This is true 
of the Book of Revelations. John says here, " With 
the sounding of the first Angel there fall hail and 
fire mingled with blood," all strain and force 
ceases, the "Thou shalt not" is eliminated and 
the sweetness and calm of the "Love" Conscious- 
ness is acquired and demonstrated. This is 
"forgiveness and those who reach this realization 
are kindled with a new fire," and their Aura or 
atmosphere is felt wherever they go. With this 
stage of attainment comes the relief from personal 
responsibility, the knowledge and consciousness 
that "All is Good" or God and God is Love; 
therefore there is nothing to Fear, for ourselves 
nor anyone else. We then realize that "Steadfastly 
facing the great I am that I am we have all 
Power and all Wisdom." "The Third face is the 
Lion," writes Ezekiel. The Lion is the emblem 
of strength, sovereignty, and princely achievement. 
The third stone John describes in Revelations: 
it is copper-emerald and sky tinted opal, emblem 
of everlasting Life. Micah, filled with this 
strength, exclaims, "Therefore I will look unto 
the Lord. Rejoice not against me O! mine enemy! 
When I fall I shall rise again." We become like 
that which we most often see and associate with; 
our minds follow the vision, and action follows the 



Some Mystic Laws 153 

mind. When we see God the All Good, the 
great I am that I am, we become strengthened! 
This is "given-for" our weakness. 

In this third stage we realize that our individual 
"will" is often wrong and we say with this realiza- 
tion, Not mine but Thy will be done. An old 
Hindu Hymn says: — "Bow down to me and thou 
shalt come even to me. Take sanctuary with 
ME above. I shall liberate Thee from all Sins 
by the resplendent Lamp of Wisdom." 

Milton wrote so beautifully with this idea: 

What in me is dark 
Illumine, what is low raise and support, 
That to the height of this great argument 
I may assert Eternal Providence 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

With this third Angel of understanding do we 
consciously and freely give ourselves back to our 
Source — acknowledging that only through this 
gate may we actualize the Divine which we really 
are; as the drop of water, while having within 
itself all the elements of the whole Ocean, cannot 
have the depth, beauty, or strength of it all until 
it is attached to it (the whole Ocean) . 

We therefore look unto God and give ourselves 
consciously to Him, to work, and to do with us, 
what he alone knows is best for us. 

With the fourth stage, or, as the Mystics speak, 
"With the Smiting of the Fourth Angel," comes 
the fourth perception, transcending the common 
law, and is believed to be the Fourth Dimension 
in space. When this dimension is sensed it gives 



154 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

the realization that there are higher laws than 
those of the five senses and their dimensions. 
Those who reach this stage of consciousness are 
the "Geniuses" of the World, the Seers, Saints, 
Prophets. When Jacob had this realization his 
name was changed to Israel; instead of a cringing 
Soul he became the Prince whom even God 
Served. At this fourth perception David became 
strong and said, "Thy gentleness has made me 
great." 

Jesus said, "It is not me but the Father within 
me." 

The Seers and Mystics of the World have all 
realized that by becoming meek, plastic, receptive, 
to the All Good and looking up with the inner eye 
they gained strength, courage, and power beyond 
that of their own knowledge. 

The following old song shows this : — 

" Cease your fretful prayers, 
Your winnings and your tame petitions; 
The Gods love courage armed with confidence 
And prayers fit to pull them down; 
Weak tears they sit and smile at." 

Jesus, realizing this law, said to his Disciples, 
"After this manner speak Ye: 'Thy Kingdom 
Come! Thy Will be done! Deliver me from 
Evil! 5 " 

Job is quoted as saying "I will demand of thee, 
and answer thou me,' 5 and of saying it over and 
over. Jacob is said to have "wrestled with God," 
saying, "Z will not let thee go except thou bless Me," 
and he later said, "I have seen God face to face." 
Showing that he had received an answer. Moses 



Some Mystic Laws 155 

was noted for his learning, and yet at forty years 
of age he fled at the threats of two Israelites. 
But after going alone into the Mountains of Midian 
and communing with God, for forty days, he 
came out strong with a Higher strength, and at 
the age of eighty commanded and was obeyed 
implicitly by two million Israelites. "Let the 
Lord be thy confidence, he will not suffer thy feet 
to be taken." This fourth "Angel" or stage of 
consciousness is "Faith/ 9 the letting go of our own 
personal Ego or Will, looking up unto the Great 
I am that I am and knowing that through Him 
all things will come to pass. 

The fifth stage is "Works" — We must use 
our Faith in our work, our lives. It is not what 
happens to us that makes us healthy, happy, help- 
ful; it is what we see and thereby harmonize with. 
We become that which we see, think, and speak of 

most. 

"Tis the set of the Soul 

That decides the Goal 

And not the storms of Life." 

Therefore, by denying the reality of evil or in- 
harmony and declaring our Divinity, our Godhood, 
the real "I" of which we are a part, we are able to 
live and act in a higher (Cosmic or Christ) con- 
sciousness and use the Laws which transcend 
those of simple or self consciousness. 

The sign of Six is in the Mystic Science of num- 
bers the highest manifestation possible on the 
sense plane, and is called the badge of "Sin." 
The ancient Seers taught that at the Sixth Angel's 
call the Soul had reached its climax in earthly 



156 Laws of Health and Prosperity 

experience or the lower plane, and could then have 
a vision of the Spiritual or Cosmic Consciousness. 
Through experience only, can the Soul realize 
that the supposed pleasures of the senses cannot 
bring real Harmony. Solomon, renowned for 
his Wisdom, through experience said, "For the 
way of Life is above to the Wise, that he may 
depart from the Hell beneath." 

The Mystic realizes that the one who is demon- 
strating inharmony, going to extremes in what the 
world calls "Sin," is simply using force in the 
wrong way according to lower sense laws, and 
that all that Soul has to do in order to become a 
great force for Good is to "turn unto God, Look up!" 
and "be saved," transformed, redeemed. 

The seventh Angel proclaims the realization! 
The Truth that Jesus the Christ came to preach 
and to live, and because he did live, demonstrate, 
in a human body, he is still living ever present in 
the Universe (as are all Souls), and we can call 
upon him, learn through him, and thereby grow 
in the same consciousness, which he not only had, 
but was. He was so saturated with the "God 
Life," so highly charged, his body was vibrating 
at such a high rate that those who even touched 
the hem of his garment were healed. The con- 
sciousness of this is to me the "second Coming 
of Christ." 

There are many other wonderful Mystic Laws 
and of these few I have been able only to give a 
hint. One other law will I mention, that of 
"The Calling out of names." The study of 
names as well as of numbers is being revived, and 



Some Mystic Laws 157 

it is well that this is so, for back of these ancient 
sciences great truths will be revealed ! 

Metaphysical healers have learned that when 
treating patients they can reach their subcon- 
scious side by calling them by their first name, 
or even using the whole name. The ancient 
Mystics called out the names of their Gods and 
repeated them over and over. Now we know 
that through the laws of "vibration" this can be 
scientific. We know that playing on one note of a 
violin or musical instrument for a long time will 
shake the foundation of a large house; that men 
marching are compelled to break step when cross- 
ing a bridge, etc., etc. 

Moses said to call on God, saying, "Thou 
great I am that I am!" and Jesus the in- 
spired, spiritualized, etherialized demonstration 
of this "I am" said, "Ask in my name:" knowing 
this law of the calling of names, he realized that to 
call with his name would aid the soul to realize 
his consciousness to a greater extent and more 
quickly. There is, therefore, a scientific reason 
for the prayers said in Churches, ending with, 
"We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ" The 
Jews in ancient times called on their God using 
Jehovah! Jehovah! And through these calls 
received their answer. 

These laws like all others I have suggested in 
these lessons must be experimented with by each 
individual and proved pragmatically. Many 
souls have done so and as Jesus the Great Master 
and Mystic said, "He who hath ears to hear, let 
him hear" 



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I wish to acknowledge with heartiest gratitude 
my great indebtedness to Mrs. Emma Curtis 
Hopkins for the consciousness she has given me, 
as well as some knowledge of these wonderful 
ancient laws, and I recommend to all students 
her "Lessons in Mysticism." For other reading 
see all Bibles and sacred writings of all peoples. 
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